"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." (Benjamin Franklin) According to Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of America, the NSA’s surveillance against U.S citizens has invaded their privacy and this is not only a case of invasion of privacy but morality, its immoral to take away a persons privacy without them knowing their privacy is being invaded. The NSA has justified their actions by saying the surveillance helps them with threats to the US, however the US citizens are the ones who are being surveillance, which is saying the US citizens are the threat to the United States of America. There have been a few incidents in which NSA surveillance has …show more content…
Great deals of communist were brought to court during 1941 and 1957. Twenty-three leaders of the communist party were convicted in 1951 under the smith act including Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, on of the founding members of the American Civil Liberties …show more content…
Technology greatly increased the amount of surveillance and has made it simpler in both corporate surveillance and government surveillance. Corporate surveillance has increased from a minimal amount to maximal information. Corporations have always gathered information of people but collected only what was necessary because it was hard and expensive to collect a great deal of information, but nowadays with the advance in technology it has become easier and less expensive. Corporations are now able to collect more information in a shorter amount of time and are able to be stored it for a longer amount of time using technology. Government Surveillance has been transformed from individually targeting one person to having surveillance on every single person in America whether he or she is a foreigner or a U.S citizen. The warrant process and limited police surveillance being collected, when they wanted to surveillance a person the police officers would a get a warrant for the specific individual himself and collect information about him alone; but since technology improved the government are able to collect as much information as they want on anyone “Now, instead of watching one person, the NSA can monitor “three hop away from that person” (Edward Snowden); the National Security Agency could surveil groups like communist groups and anarchists and ultimately spy on other governments like the Soviets and the