The Expansion Of Internet During The United States

The Internet powers our country. Not only do hundreds of millions of Americans use it daily, our government and states use it to do important national and international business. Our government already utilizes it to monitor the activity of its people. This monitoring has especially risen after events such as the Boston Bombing and the attacks of 9/11. The main reason that the government does this is to keep us safe. If the government puts more slack on this matter, then it will give a chance for terrorists to complete their objective. The normal person does not know how many terrorist attacks may have been stopped in the past years due to this surveillance, and how many lives it may have saved. Therefore, we cannot let our government halt

The focus of our intelligence agencies to gather as much data as possible is completely wrong and has had lethal consequences, from 9/11 to 7/7 to Paris, Brussels and Nice. You don’t need all the data about everybody in the world to discover and react to threats. If you do try to gather such vast volumes of data, you flood your analysts, decision makers and police with garbage. They need the right data and they need it in time. The only way to get there is by upfront filtering for targets, which can be done through metadata – information about the sender, recipient and receiver of an email or phone call. That, in turn, has a nice side-effect: it gives privacy to more than 99% of people who are not known targets or demonstrating behaviour that

Technology is taking over the world as we know it. Orwell predicted that technology would take control of citizen’s lives and make them have no privacy, and honestly that is not so far off. Governments can access these devices and look at what people learning, looking at, and who they are talking to. There is not much that a citizen can hide from their government. Citizens do not have as much privacy as they did even just twenty years ago. With technological advances, the world could follow the story of George Orwell’s 1984. Video surveillance is something that the government uses also, although it is not as harsh as in George Orwell’s story, but still citizen’s privacies are being invaded. According to Alex Abdo, there is a United States owned database filled with every Americans information and every one of his or her associations (Abdo). Even the United States, which is considered a country built upon freedom, is monitoring its people. The American government even tries to follow everything that its citizens do. Governments even have 64 federal websites that are helping them follow their people’s browsing and buying habits (Zuckerbrod). Governments are using their websites to monitor what people are doing. This way the government can know everything from their people’s hobbies to who their best friend is. Technology is helping the government take away their citizens privacy.

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.

How has the U.S. surveillance changed in the past 10 years? Surveillance is defined as a “close kept watch over someone or something.” The use of surveillance has always been there since the days of following someone from their home to work and back, but surveillance and technology have been combined together now. Spying and policing agencies no longer have the need to use of following anyone or listening to their conversations through walls, watching them from distance, and even going through a suspect’s garbage to gather information. The capabilities of government spying are very wide such as computer hacking skills, domestic drone surveillance, and data gathering through cell phone companies. American companies such as Skype, Facebook, Google and many mobile carriers companies reportedly have been turning over user information to government. The important question here is whether spying on the citizens of the United States necessarily a bad thing or not? Also, what can individuals do to protect their privacy from being invaded by their own government? The answer to the question is that our right to our privacy does not exist anymore because everyone is under surveillance and the technology is moving up very fast in this subject and it seems that it is no longer about stopping terrorists, but it is only an excuse to build a surveillance empire.

The interactions between privacy and national security has been a widely discussed topic since the statements made by Edward Snowden, and is largely criticized by the public regarding private information and cellphone privacy. Over the years, intelligence agency has gained an outstanding reputation because they successfully track down Osama bin Laden, however, four years after this positive event, the policy image of intelligence agency is been questioned by the general public.

Today’s technology advance America that the military have control over most countries. They fight on their soil to keep peace in America. That puts us ahead against many countries. Technology is used for good and bad, it should be put away sometimes it shouldn’t be given to anyone they shouldn’t have been arrested for using technology they shonden’t be able to use it. I believe that media cad should let low status people should let them do what they need to do. I believe in America that does not keep secret prisons for torcher

High speed internet has entirely changed the American society in the past 20 years. In the beginning of the 2000s the internet was seen as an oddity and now nearing the 2020s the internet is now something that most people cannot live without. The major pluses and minuses that come along with this increase in internet are that increased internet bridges the culture gap, it increases educational opportunities, children can easily become vulnerable with increased internet, and there is less physical connection in society with more internet availability.

One of the most important government tasks is keeping track of threats made on our country. Through surveillance technology, the government can become aware of any impending dangers and take precautions to prevent them. This type of information has put a stop to various terrorist situations, some of which have not even been publicized. “We don’t really know how many terrorist plots have been foiled because of all this data-gathering.

In present day society the concept of surveillance has become a frequently discussed topic as it has evolved into a catastrophic jumble. Numerous criminals have been convicted of charges where the court has used surveillance information to prove that the subject is guilty. While there have been some positives from the use of surveillance, there must be a limit or America may become overwhelmed by the severe amounts of surveillance. For our safety and security it is ideal to allow government officials access to surveillance programs within regulations. For example, unless the person is wholly suspicious for a criminal act there should be no reason for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to gather personal data. Also, the surveillance must be utterly legal and the FBI may never attack the convict ergo feeling completely powerless. Lastly, the information gathered from the surveillance must effectively prove the person guilty of their charges. Without the few of these regulations in America’s court system may become insane and constantly charge us of criminal actions without the knowledge of personal data being sucked out of us.

Government surveillance has not contributed to a decrease of percentage in crimes, but has created a controversial topic instead. Online surveillance has been an invasion of privacy, because everything the users access is seen without their consent. Due to the fact the stored data is not used, government surveillance in the united states has not been very impactful. Crimes and terrorist attacks were not stopped, and the mass storage of personal data within the last year has violated privacy laws 2,776 times (Government Surveillance 722). Surveillance online is not only unsuccessful in America, but in UK, and Canada as well. Out of every 1000 security cameras, only one camera is actually used to catch a criminal (Government Surveillance 722). However, there are several solutions that can be made to allow the usage of government surveillance without the violating the rights of Americans. Some of the solutions have already taken action, and will give users more freedom online.

The use of technology that has the capability to study the lives of individuals needed to be limited but also had uses that could benefit society. The Patriot act was created after the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. “Those who wanted intelligence agencies to apply for search warrants like other law-enforcement agencies (Constitutional Rights Foundation).” The use of warrants has helped protect us from creating a world similar to Big Brothers by limiting U.S. agencies from spying on people without probable cause or the use of a warrant. Technology has also been limited by many lifestyle changes throughout the years. An average person owns a new technology allowing the ability for them to be watched to increase. “After the passage of FISA and subsequent laws, citizens have not been given the same protection with regards to electronic surveillance. (Stanford).” Although limitations have been put in action the ability for the high-ranking officials to watch the majority of the population is occurring. Many law enforcements sometimes ignore the privacy laws, and don’t apply for warrants. The world of Big Brother is occurring and the capabilities out way the limitations greatly, creating a system where the population is now under the

The cause of terrorist attacks like 9/11 tragedy the government has ramped ups the security and surveillance of the activist, journalist and dissidents. It is no secret that the government are able to have assess of people phone call records and text messages but for that reason that, activists avoid using telephones, instead they use tools like Skype. Which they think they are immune to interception but they are wrong. Over the last years there has been an industry of companies who provide surveillance technology to the government, technology that allows the government to hack into computers. Rather that intercepting the commutations as they go over the wire, instead the government now hacks into your computer, enable your webcam and your microphone and able to steal and look through documents from your computer. In the article “ Quasi- Constitutional Protection and Government Surveillance” by Emily Berman argues “ The government may collect and analyze unprecedented amounts of information about U.S persons’ communications, but without concomitant safeguards against infringing on individual privacy” (781). According to this, it indicates that all the access the government is able to see and how it is invading American’s privacy.

With all the atrocities unfolding around us from the rise of ISIL to the recent Parliament Hill Shootings in Ottawa, it is easy for us to think - on impulse - that we need to do more to keep ourselves safe. It is easy for spy agencies to operate on the belief that they need to collect more of our information to fulfill their responsibilities. Indeed, the American NSA, the British GCHQ and many other intelligence agencies around the world have created mass surveillance apparatuses with unprecedented sizes and levels of sophistication. Unfortunately, mass surveillance is a step in the wrong direction. Though well-intentioned, these programs are principally unjustified, and have detrimental ramifications.

A literature review about new terms and theories that were developed by scholars to describe shifts that were caused by the rise of Internet and which are relevant in order to understand the present topic will be discussed. In the following, the concept of the working consumer, prosumption, user-generated content, participatory culture and electronic word-of-mouth will be explained in accordance with the academic literature.