The Pros And Cons Of NSA Spying

Everyone has regrets. Some major and minor ones respectively. Mostly as people regret what they have done they usually change afterwards to make sure it doesn’t regress or as to hide it. What if, even through all the efforts to change, these decisions you have made could be in a database, ready to be picked out again through even the smallest mishap? The NSA has these databases, and whilst the possibility for it to affect you is low, just the thought of having surveillance changes the way humans think and act in a negative manner. The compromise is that the NSA should not be able to interfere with any documents or messages guaranteed to be private, such as phone calls, texts, emails or private domain, but if the information is available
Claims for this side and against the NSA are their collection methods being unconstitutional to the 4th amendment, which prohibits searches and seizures without a search warrant (Gellman). Examples being the fact that when Microsoft bought skype, although they stated that it was to respect privacy, the information on it was all ready for the government (Greenwald 112). The 4th amendment was made after all, the fact that privacy is a human right, and because it is just in human nature to act differently under
The people who are for this side are the NSA themselves, which are an intelligence agency for the government. The surveillance against possible terrorist attacks and crimes is the reason why they are still up and running. Especially after the event of 9-11 did the NSA become more prominent with their surveillance, and if Franklin D Roosevelt took measures to beef up the surveillance in 1940, it would be alright for bush to do it temporarily in 2001. A perfect world for the NSA would be being able to have enough surveillance to stop terrorist attacks, crimes, and other injustices to the