Summary: The Truth About The NSA

The Truth About the NSA The government should worry citizens, by hiring people to hack into their lives. The National Security Agency, NSA, is “inside” everything from phones to major websites like Google and Yahoo. The NSA is responsible for code breaking and getting information from phones and the internet. The NSA has headquarters in the United Kingdom as well. They try to focus overseas instead of domestically to prevent any serious crime and to defend the UK’s economic interest. Because the NSA doesn’t trust its own U.S. citizens, violates the fourth amendment, and made programs to “hack” us, the NSA invades the privacy of citizens and should be stopped. In December 2005, New York Times said that the NSA was engaged in warrantless
The information was gathered about this “hack” though Edward Snowden (Savage, et al 4). Snowden is a former NSA contractor, who has leaked over 200,000 documents to the press. Recently, Snowden is involved in the huge news story about the NSA hacking into Google and Yahoo and collecting data about millions of account users of these networks. He leaked stories to The Guardian and The Washington Post during his NSA career, because he knew something was happening that needed told to the public. They are supposed to protect our country by bringing in information to help take down potential or current terrorist threats, and, instead, the government is wasting money to have them spy on innocent citizens. So far there’s not even a good reason to it, because not every single person who owns a phone or computer is a threat. Some use these things to do homework and talk to people, without the worry of someone tracking their information and keeping it in data centers “just in case.” It’s all very
Like the other programs, upstream involves collecting huge fibre-optic communications cables, both crossing the USA and some undersea cables. The collection allows the NSA access to large amounts of phone and internet data, where at least one end of the communication is outside of the country. Later it was revealed that the NSA keeps all the data it gains through Upstream and PRISM in database system called MARINA for at least 12 months (NSA files 5). This shows an example of only collecting the data of people if at least one person taking part in the communication is a non-US citizen, but it still doesn’t help to convince that the NSA shoud be doing what it