Is Government Surveillance Necessary

Government Surveillance is Legal and Necessary

Since September 11, 2001, the National Security Agency started a program called National Security to help the government collect and monitor information and data from overseas.There are two-hundred million text messages and three million phone calls collected per day to detect terrorist attacks before it happens (King 1). Some attacks are stopped before it happens but there are some that aren't. Let's take 9/11 for example, nineteen hijackers attacked the United States by flying four commercial airlines into the North and South Twin Tower (piloted by Mohamad Atta and Marwan al Shehhi ) , the Pentagon Building in Washington (piloted by Hani Hanjour ), and a Field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania (piloted
The purpose of this program is to protect the national communication system’s integrity and to get information on foreign adversaries’ secret communications. It was created by President Truman and the National Security Council on 11/4/1952. The NSA’s mission is to seek out foreign attacks or contacts. The program engages in anti-terrorist computer network operations. The NSA hacks into the everyday technology we use to see who is contacting foreign enemies. The NSA program isn’t the only surveillance there is. The cameras in stores, banks, schools, and gas stations are all part of government surveillance. Police officers and FBI agents use those cameras to help them out on important cases to put the convict in
Surveillance like that is endangering the Fourth Amendment which is “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” This amendment is basically saying that the police and the government agents can’t search people’s homes, workplaces, computers and etc. without a warrant. Most government agents go against that right to help their cases but it’s still wrong. After 9/11, people that was coming from other countries and to get searched without a warrant, which is going against the 4th amendment. It was called the ‘’border search’’ (Buren 1). People come into this country to be free from the lack of protection from their leaders and for them to get searched when the get of the plane is unnecessary. They have the same rights as us when they stepped foot on U.S. grounds. The Department of Justice use Subpoena to tap into people's Facebook and Google records (Buren 1). They believe they have authority to do that because when using the Subpoena you don't have to interact with the