Edward Snowden Research Paper

In December, 2012 an anonymous source tried to communicate with Glen Greenwald, a columnist for The Guardian. Since they couldn’t find a secure way to communicate, they weren’t able to talk. A month later, that same person started sending e-mails to Laura Poitras, a woman that had made 2 movies about the US after 911. That man’s name is Edward Snowden, he was an NSA worker who wanted to revel how the US government was violating people’s privacy. His name is Edward Snowden and he made one of the bravest acts in American history. He tricked the government and was able to tell Americans what their own country had been hiding from them.

The information that Snowden revealed is of mayor interest to everyone. Because governments don’t only track phone calls. They track emails, credit cards, Google searches. They are aware of everything you do. The government’s excuse for this is that they want more security. But at what cost are they willing to get it. It is not fair that just for security the government can spy in
They might even be spying on me while I write this, or on you while you are Reading it.

There is nothing wrong with the NSA trying to do research on people, but there should be boundaries put to that research. They shouldn’t be allowed to spy on every single person regardless of who they are. They should only do it with people who have been “marked” with terrorists or criminals (anyone who has been seen talking to or contacting them).

These organizations have so much information that they are even able to recreate a person’s day with what they know about the person and based on his payments, calls and e-mails. They can figure out who you were with and who you talked to just by checking similarities in someone else’s data. They basically know everything about