New Technology : Invade Privacy Or Prevent Terrorist Attack?

The increasing power and functionality of technology has increasingly invaded privacy and complicated security. Technology has made it possible for the government to

Safety has always been a necessary goal but it was never as serious as it is now. Since September 11, 2001 safety is a more observed factor in America. On that day, two airplanes struck the Twin Towers in New York. That terrorist attack has had a permanent effect on the way America functions daily. “Our Connected World and the Unseen Legacies” by Emily Dreyruss, Andy Greenberg, and other various authors discuss these effects and how much privacy people give up to be safe now. They believe that the loss of privacy in exchange for increased safety is acceptable. They have a good point. Privacy in exchange for safety is a justifiable tradeoff. Some of the changes that give up privacy for safety after 9/11 are more accepted than people before 9/11 would think.

Dingwen Zhang English 3 12 August 2016 NSA Surveillance NSA Surveillance: Is safety worth losing freedom? Recently there is debate about if it is okay for the United States government to spy on citizens using NSA and FBI. This became common knowledge when Edward Snowden leaked millions of documents that show the government is spying on the public. The United States government should not keep the NSA surveillance going because it hurts the public more than it keeps the public safe.

As girls grow in life, they mature and change into women. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout, the main character, begins to mature into a woman. In the beginning of the book, she is a tomboy who cannot wait to pick a fistfight with anyone, but at the end, she lowers her fists because her father, Atticus, tells her not to fight. Scout’s views of womanhood, influenced by how Aunt Alexandra, Miss Maudie, and Calpurnia act, make her think more about becoming a woman and less of a tomboy.

In the article, they discuss how the NSA has overreached and “cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions of people to protect the privacy of their personal data, online transactions and emails” (Ball). Throughout the article, they argue that the NSA is interfering with American privacy, and security, by trying to win a war on encryption. They even reveal that the NSA is even coercing some unnamed technology companies and Internet Service Providers to cooperate with their demands and hand over keys or create backdoors. According to the NSA, this is “the price of admission for the US to maintain unrestricted access to and use of cyberspace” (Ball). Yet, at the same time they are effectively undermining the security of different networks. Additionally, the article “NSA Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web” by Nicole Perlroth, Jeff Larson, and Scott Shane build on this argument of national security against privacy. They argue that the NSA is undermining everyday privacy in communications of today’s digital

On September 11, 2001, tragedy struck in the United States; 2,977 people died in the iconic terrorist attacks (“September 11th Fast Facts”). In New York, New York, two planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers, and another crashed into the Pentagon, which is the military command center located in Washington D.C. Along with those three planes, there was a fourth plane that was hijacked, but the passengers overthrew the terrorist, and downed the plane in Pennsylvania. These attacks resulted in racism against the Muslim community and government agencies that changed their goal to preventing another terrorist attack on the United States and its allies (Gould, Eric D., and Klor). One of these agencies is the NSA; NSA employee, Edward Snowden leaked top-secret information in 2013, regarding their spying program (Greenwald, Glenn). This caused great commotion all across the United States about people’s rights. However, the NSA is here to protect the United States and other countries from potential terrorist attacks. The NSA should be allowed to collect people’s communication records to bring home more troops and prevent terrorist attacks.

Technology has come a long way since the early 90’s. With modern advances, technology is just about incorporated in everything we do in our day-to-day lives. Since technology has been incorporated into our everyday lives, it may raise some concerns about what may be happening in the background. One of these concerns would be privacy, we all may take it for granted but it is our constitutional rights as Americans. But this all changed after the September 2001 attack on the twin towers.

Our argument is that the government should be able to wiretap and spy without warrant. My partner brought up our first main contention which was how wiretapping and spying stop terrorism. Our other contentions are is it helps speed up trials and brings a more accurate verdict, and there wouldn't be as much paperwork if it was warrantless. Our next main contention that I will be discussing is how wiretapping and spying stops organized crimes. The organized crimes that it would be able to stop is murder, robbery, drug distribution, human trafficking, and many other crimes. Think about all the lives that would be saved by spying on suspected people who would commit the crimes… How warrantless wiretapping and spying will work is they will be able to listen on conversations and read emails. After that they will be able to apprehend the suspect if they are suspected of committing a crime. With crime and terrorism on the rise our country can seriously benefit from warrantless wiretapping. The law enforcement and government officials using wiretaps are not spying random but instead suspect criminals. Also when they collect information by using wiretaps it does interfere with innocent U.S citizens. This is some of the reasoning behind our argument.

There is no doubt the privacy of our online activities and the integrity of our communications have been the biggest casualty of the NSA’s surveillance of our lives. Although ongoing revelations of government eavesdropping have had a profound impact on many different aspects in life. The NSA must balance out their interference with citizens lives because it’s undermining the government's leadership on internet safety, deteriorating internet security, and is causing economic losses to U.S. businesses due to decreasing customer trust.

Even though the impact of this article is rather small on the rest of the world, it doesn’t mean that there isn’t an impact on the United States. What the writer was trying to accomplish by writing this article is to bring the issue of whether using a large amount of data that is being sold from companies to the police is invading the privacy of the citizens; it is for the reader and the audience to form a conclusion and opinion in order to get a discussion

Government surveillance in the past was not a big threat due to the limitations on technology; however, in the current day, it has become an immense power for the government. Taylor, author of a book on Electronic Surveillance supports, "A generation ago, when records were tucked away on paper in manila folders, there was some assurance that such information wouldn 't be spread everywhere. Now, however, our life stories are available at the push of a button" (Taylor 111). With more and more Americans logging into social media cites and using text-messaging devices, the more providers of metadata the government has. In her journal “The Virtuous Spy: Privacy as an Ethical Limit”, Anita L. Allen, an expert on privacy law, writes, “Contemporary technologies of data collection make secret, privacy invading surveillance easy and nearly irresistible. For every technology of confidential personal communication…there are one or more counter-technologies of eavesdropping” (Allen 1). Being in the middle of the Digital Age, we have to be much more careful of the kinds of information we put in our digital devices.

The United States government agencies like the FBI and NSA have invested lots of time, effort, and money towards the security of its citizens and the prevention of terrorism since the attacks on the World Trade Center on September of 2001. The efforts have not prevented any major terrorist attacks since then; the efforts have been unsuccessful. These agencies have relied on discriminatory profiling of individuals based on their religion and place of origin; allowing for the association of Islam and people of Arab decent with terrorism-related crimes. The decision of monitoring a whole group of people should be based on crime rates rather then race and religion.

Sidney Hook said, “Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.” Mr. Fitzpatrick an experienced teacher and Mr. Meyer a brand new teacher were both influenced by their teachers to help them realize their passion to teach. Mr. Fitzpatrick was my U.S. History teacher my freshman year of high school and I remembered when he taught anyone could tell how much he loved history and how every year he brings joy to so many students by hosting Disco Daze. Disco Daze allows anyone who participates to go back in time for a little while and truly experience what it was like living in the 70s. It was a truly memorable experience as a student and I still look forward to it as a senior. Mr. Meyer reaches out to students through his coaching. Many athletes look up to him and every time they are around him they are smiling and laughing. It is his first year teaching and he already has students who look up to him as a role model. Comparing the years of experience they have can show the similarities and differences between how they talk about their teaching styles, their inspiration that made them decide to be a teacher, and the memorable experiences they have had as a teacher.

Do you really want to end up on the streets with a sign saying “help i’m homeless because I spent my money on drugs, i’m addicted.” Even in more pain then you should be? No honestly I don’t think so. Medical marijuana has been proven by gale group to increase pain to a very high level. It has been proven by the Opposing Viewpoints introduction to “Medical Marijuana,” to take away memory, your pain you’re trying to decrease can be increased, gale group states that it can increase tooth aches. Medical marijuana was tested on a mouse which proved all this. Medical marijuana is addictive and increase pain when you’re trying to decrease pain making your symptoms worse. Medical marijuana should be illegal once again.

The online world of social networking, with spy's and hackers. Do you remember the term Libertarianism? Libertarianism is the idea to believe in the doctrine of free will, where nobody tells you what to do and how to do it, including the government. That's nots in effect anymore. This topic is relevant to today's world because of the constant war on terror that hasn't ended yet. Currently, the FBI and Apple are in a feud because Apple is denying the request sent by the FBI to unlock the San Bernardino killers' Apple IPhone. Many claim that if Apple unlocks the phone, their would be a back door in the encryption in the future. If this happens Americans are posed with having their information leaked. Snowden and the Patriot are also factors that