Citizenfour is a documentary in which Laura Poitras starts receiving strange anonymous e-mails from a man that called himself by the name of "CitizenFour," that’s why the documentary is named that way. This anonymous guy said that he had evidence of illegal monitoring programs held by the NSA, CIA, GCHQ and many others agencies working worldwide. Months later after that, she and 2 guys named Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill (which are reporters) fly all the way to Hong Kong in order to meet with this anonymous citizenfour man. When they got there, they found out that the man turned out to be Edward Snowden. Throughout the rest of the film, Edward or “citizenfour” starts to reveal all the shocking information he has. This film not only brings to …show more content…
Its okay that this agencies just like many others work hard to assure the safety of the nation controlling the crimes investigated via online, in phone calls, texts or infiltrating in deep web or many other criminalistic sites. Even though this is their job, I don’t agree with the fact that they interfere and violate our personal privacy. This is a human right we all have. The right of privacy. I don't like the idea that people listen to my phone calls read my texts or track down what I do online. I'm connected most of my time in the internet and I'm scared of what I do because after reading all the Snowden story I think that all the time there's someone tracking what I'm doing online or listening to my conversations, I can't speak freely neither text. I'm impressed with all of this, because people don’t do anything about it. They are not aware about this, we need to protect and defend our rights, we can't allow this to happen. We need to fight for our privacy, they are violating our integrity. I believe firmly on Snowden and I think his purpose is to alert the whole world and to reveal all this confidential information because he
On June 6, 2013, The Guardian published a story about the National Security Agency's (NSA) secret Internet surveillance program, PRISM (Greenwald and MacAskill 2013). The story was based on documents leaked by one of the most successful whistle-blowers in American history, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The documents that Snowden has released up to this time have shown the NSA to be heavily engaged in the collection of personal Internet activity, bulk collection of telephone "metadata," and other forms of surveillance that have brought U.S. intelligence practices into question.
After the disclosures by Edward Snowden turned a critical eye to the NSA many people questioned the legality of the acts. The NSA claimed that their work was legal and had prevented many terrorist plots. However, evidence of only four plots was ever found. Even if the acts were founded in law, they still angered large numbers of citizens. Many citizens do not care if the spying is legal, believing that it is morally wrong. Government surveillance organizations have grown to be extremely powerful and are capable of accessing large swaths of personal information; these abilities intrude into the private lives of citizens and need to be curtailed.
Described as a terrifying and eye-opening thriller, Citizenfour, a documentary directed by Laura Poitras, follows the case of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who revealed the truth behind the National Security Agency surveillance programs in the United States. Throughout the movie, we first-handedly experience the obstacles Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, a reporter for The Guardian, need to overcome, in order to share Snowden’s story and help him spread the information he leaked. Along those lines, the documentary begins with several encrypted emails received by Poitras from an anonymous sender nicknamed “Citizenfour” who later turns out to be Snowden. A few months later, Poitras and Greenwald partner up and meet Snowden in Hong Kong, where
Ever since the American public was made aware of the United States government’s surveillance policies, it has been a hotly debated issue across the nation. In 2013, it was revealed that the NSA had, for some time, been collecting data on American citizens, in terms of everything from their Internet history to their phone records. When the story broke, it was a huge talking point, not only across the country, but also throughout the world. The man who introduced Americans to this idea was Edward Snowden.
In 2013, a man named Edward Snowden ignited a national debate by revealing that our National Security Agency, or the NSA, has been gathering mass amounts of phone records and other, private, data without consulting the American public. That means American emails, chats, phone calls, online transactions, web searches, or even online medical records can and have be stolen by the government without consent. Using decryption methods, court orders, supercomputers, and technical tricks, the NSA is slowly gaining ground on its war on encryption. All of these things are supposed to be defended by technology companies and Internet Service Providers, but in the article, “Revealed: How US and UK Spy Agencies Defeat Internet Privacy and Security” by James
More and more people fight back against NSA surveillance. They are on the opinion that their personal information should be kept in secret. Moreover, a fair bit of organizations and even individuals unite together in order to react against such actions of NSA as they are afraid that vital information about them might become known for everyone and those NSA’s actions disturb privacy of organizations as well as ordinary people.
Fed Up is a 2014 American documentary film about the rise of child obesity directed by Stephanie Soechtig. The film claim there were no Type 2 diabetes cases within adolescent in 1980, but there were 57,638 Type 2 diabetes cases within adolescent in 2010. Many Americans believe eat less and exercise more will help lose weight, but the problem has to do with eating sugar and blame the government for this problem. In 1977, the staff of the United States Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs warned Senator George McGovern that many foods contain too much fat and sugar and attempt to propose a dietary goal for American. The proposal was denied when the egg, sugar, dairy, and meat association joined together due to fear in sale decrease
First of all, in the contents of this debate, we support that Snowden’s actions were necessary. We understand that there must be a balance between privacy and national security. However, the NSA and government were overstepping their mandate to protect American citizens. Checks and balances in intelligence agencies deteriorated, resulting in secrecy, abuse of power, and stretched interpretations of the
Throughout the N.S.A.’s history, it has never been collecting as much data as it has today. Data sent out from mobile devices is being intercepted, as cellphone companies cooperate unquestionably. There is no arguing against the crimes Snowden committed. However, it is more important to observe the results the crime produced, rather than looking only at the act of the crime itself. Thus, the crimes committed by US government agencies are of greater concern than those perpetrated by Snowden because the US is in a far greater position of authority, power, and control.
Poitras traveled to Hong Kong with Glenn Greenwald to interview Snowden and created the third installment of her post-9/11 trilogy, Citizenfour. Concealing in a hotel room with Snowden in eight intense days in Hong Kong, she documented on NSA mass surveillance based on Snowden’s revelations. Citizenfour won Best Documentary at the Academy Award and other
Privacy has endured throughout human history as the pillar upon which our authentic nature rests. Yet, in an age darkened by the looming shadow of terrorism, another force threatens to dominate the skyline and obscure the light of liberty behind promises of safety and security: government surveillance. As an employee of the NSA, Edward Snowden broke his vow of secrecy to inform the public of our government’s furtive surveillance acts, but does this render him traitorous? To answer this, we must first ask ourselves, traitorous to whom? When the very institution established to protect our fundamental liberties intrudes on our privacy from behind a veil of secrecy, should such informed individuals resign from judicious autonomy and
The documentary Citizenfour is an eye opening first hand tale of Edward Snowden, a former contractor with the National Security Administration who leaked top secret documents to reporters. The leaked information has transformed the understanding of the American people of the government spying on everyone and anyone they chose to, without probable cause, warrants or constitutional standing. The implications of his actions though specifically unknown at the time, were calculated and deemed well worth his own personal risk to imprisonment, death or the relinquished rights of his United States citizenship.
In Laura Poitra’s documentary CitizenFour we follow Edward Snowden, a former Central Intelligence Agency employee who copied and released classified information from the National Security Agency in 2013, from when Snowden and Poitra initially meet up until the beginning of the leaks and the dramatic days following. After receiving encrypted emails from someone claiming to have secrets on government intelligence, Poitra flew to Hong Kong along with Glenn Greenwald, a reporter for the guardian and met up with the person whom in the emails referred to himself as “CitizenFour”. We then get an inside view of what took place inside the hotel room Snowden stayed in, in an interview style perspective as Snowden explains to Poitra and Greenwald how
In early 2013 a man by the name of Edward Joseph Snowden began leaking classified National Security Agency (NSA) documents to media outlets, which in turn ended up in public ears. These documents, mainly involving intelligence Snowden acquired while working as an NSA contractor, are mostly related to global surveillance programs run by the NSA. This has raised multiple ethical issues ranging from national security, information privacy and the ethics behind whistleblowing in general. The reach and impact of these leaks have gone global and have put in question the very government that protects us as well as the extent of the public’s rights on privacy. Various foreign
Edward Snowden is a United States citizen and former employee of the National Security Agency (NSA). Snowden leaked information about the NSA to the media in 2013 and is now in Russia where he was recently granted three years of asylum. The NSA uses cryptology and others forms of information gathering to enable various networks to make advantageous decisions for the Nation and our allies under all circumstances. The NSA operates undetected by civilians, and uses global monitoring so broadly defined that it has allowed for unscrupulous behavior that was witnessed by contracted employee, Edward Snowden. Snowden believed that as the public gained knowledge of the illegal intelligence gathering by the government of domestic citizens, and abroad, he would gain protection from the public. Snowden did receive protection from people including powerful lawyers, journalists, and privacy advocates. Analysis of the Edward Snowden case