National Security Agency eavesdropping versus privacy rights Southwestern Adventist University Abstract The United States government should not have the right to eavesdrop and target U.S citizens because of matter of national security. However if we have nothing to hide from the government‚ then why we should be afraid of the government eavesdropping on U.S citizens because of a national security reason‚ if according to the government it is to benefit and protect us? Should we give our privacy
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What if it was revealed that the President of the United States was intentionally violating the Constitution? The very Constitution which our founding fathers had written 200 years ago to protect our freedom. What if‚ instead of apologizing‚ the President justified this gross violation with the intent of protecting our nation by a super-secret spy agency? That frightening scenario came into fruition in 2002‚ when in light of the 9/11 attacks‚ President Bush signed a secret order authorizing the NSA
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NSA Surveillance Program: A Threat to Civilians Privacy Since the beginning of WWI‚ spying activity has become a very important part of national security to United States. To track the activity of people‚ U.S.A. has many spying agencies and National Security Agency (NSA) is one of them. NSA is the main producer and manager of signal intelligence for the United States. It collects‚ monitors‚ translates‚ and analyses global information‚ and data for intelligence purposes and performs
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Since September 11‚ 2001‚ the United States of America will always watch its back for terrorist attacks. Ever since that September day‚ we have increased our security in our airports and created Homeland Security. Some people feel the NSA‚ National Security Agency‚ has gone too far with its surveillance in protecting our country and people from attacks. Some say that they have not done enough to protect us. I feel there are some things the NSA should absolutely do‚ and then there are others I feel
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American security consultant working for NSA on behalf of Booz Hamilton consulting Leaked top secret US and UK govt surveillance programs data to press bcoz of his "conscience" Charges on him of : espionage‚ theft of govt property. Leaked it to Guardian. Also‚ Nuremberg 1945 act says that "individuals have international duties that transcend national obligations of obedience. Therefore individuals have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against humanity" Daniel Ellsberg did similar
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Throughout the past century there have been multiple incidents breeding distrust and contention between the government and civilians. There was McCarthy communist “witch-hunt ” of the sixties; the series of illegal activities associated with the Watergate scandal‚ and most recently the illegal the National Security Agencies illegal monitoring of citizens‚ borough to light by Edward Snowden. “Edward Snowden‚ Whistler- Blower” by The Editorial Board offers a sympathetic perspective at the noble effort
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When I first read this article something that struck my mind as interesting was the first reported case of NSA spying. Edward Snowden worked for the NSA and became a whistleblower when found out how invasive the NSA become. He took classified information from the NSA and how they were misleading congress. He contacted Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras to get the story out. According to Snowden the NSA had direct access to “Google‚ Microsoft‚ Facebook‚ even Steve Jobs’s Apple.” (Harding). The NSA
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PRO – The benefits of domestic surveillance by the NSA outweigh the harms. DEFINITIONS: The term benefit is defined as‚ "to be useful or helpful to (someone or something)." (Merriam-Webster) Outweigh means‚ "to be greater than in value." (Merriam-Webster) The NSA’s domestic surveillance program involves collects a multitude of metadata on phone calls. Additionally‚ raw data on internet traffic is collected (ProPublica(R.1)). Domestic is defined as‚ "existing or occurring inside a particular
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America’s Privacy The National Security Agency (NSA) is a federal program under the Department of Defense that has the primarily task of global monitoring‚ collection‚ decoding‚ translation and analysis of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes‚ including surveillance of targeted individuals on U.S. soil. In the mid-1970s‚ the NSA was investigated for the first time by Congress. At that time‚ the order of the NSA was that is “would never direct it’s
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NSA: National Security or National Stalkers? In 2010‚ it became legal for the National Security Agency (NSA) to access private email logs‚ social media accounts and other internet databases (Risen & Poitras‚ "N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens). Risen and Poitras (2013) explain that the intention of this change was to help protect the United States (U.S.) from future terrorist attacks and was for the general purpose of national safety. It is unclear how many terrorist attacks
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