"The internet, one of the greatest technological advances made in the twentieth century, is like an endless database that holds what seems like an infinite amount of data on whatever you could possibly think of. Since 1996, when President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore led a one day movement to get thousands of California schools connected, we had integrated this technology into schools throughout the United States. Now we have nearly thirty-five million students with access to the internet when they’re at school. I remember just four years ago when I was a freshmen and I rarely would use our Learnpads during the entire school year. And now, as a senior, I am easily using my Chromebook two to even three hours during my average day at school.
During my 6th hour study hall, I was
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With scandals that have given the public information about what the NSA can do. Edward Snowden, a former contractor to the US government who worked for the NSA until he released confidential information about what happens at the agency, described that there is a process to being monitored by the agency. First they use a the Dragnet method. This method build a map of digital connections through people by using widely used sites like Google, Facebook, and Skype that were part of the Prism scandal in 2013. If you are considered a person of interest due to what you have looking up you then are go into the Targeted phase. You are then under a much heavier level of surveillance. Your phone is tracked and used as a microphone, camera, and geolocation device. Snowden also described that they have the ability to sit at their desk and see what you are doing on your computer or device in real time. This is a very scary thought that they have the ability to do this to just about anybody in the U.S. whenever they