The Importance Of Privacy And Security In The United States

"59 Radio Address about the American Right of Privacy. February 23, 1974." American Reference Library - Primary Source Documents, Jan. 2001, p. 1. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mih&AN=32360825.

The American people, including many big corporations such as Apple, disagree with the government collecting the personal information of the American people. President, Barack Obama, stated that intelligence committees and all congress members were briefed on the Patriot Act and its contents (Obama). The congressmen knew what the Patriot Act did involving the personal commutations in the United States. Nevertheless, the Patriot act was voted into being a law almost unanimously in the senate, 98-1, and 357-66 in the House of Representatives (Patriot Act). When Ed Snowden leaked that the NSA was obtaining personal information and how it was handled, the American people became shocked and outraged towards the government, and created a tension from the American people towards the government.

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.

Imagine someone living in a country that turns surveillance equipment on its own citizens to monitor their locations, behavior, and phone calls. Probably no one is willing to live in such place where privacy is being undermined by the authorities. For people living in the U.S., their private information has been more vulnerable than ever before because the government is able to use various kinds of surveillance equipment and technology to monitor and analyze their activities, conversations, and behaviors without their permission, in the name of homeland security. Mass surveillance has jeopardized people’s privacy and deprived individuals of their freedom, which is associated with dignity, trust, and autonomy. In the

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 privacy of American citizens has been long debated ever since the N.S.A. was revealed to the public on what it was doing. Since then, American citizens have been arguing over what the N.S.A. should and shouldn 't be doing. This has lead to the government changing some things, but not everything and causing the American citizens to get upset and wonder what is and isn 't being watched. We go through on a daily basis wondering if our next phone call, that next email, our websites we browse and even our next text message is being monitored by the government and if it is will it get flagged as something they deem worthy of investigating into. This constant fear has us wondering what we should and shouldn 't be posting on various social media sites, taking pictures of or even talking about. By questioning what the N.S.A. is doing, we leave ourselves pondering what the government should do to adjust what control the N.S.A. should have, the activities it should be conducting, who they should be monitoring and what gets flagged as warranting further investigation. Many people believe that the N.S.A. should have restrictions placed on it that prevent it from having complete access to everything, in which if they are going to be able to access anything they want to they need to inform the public on what information they are going to get and how they use it as without this information being

The government's involvement in the daily lives of Americans is a high contested issue--where do our rights end and invasions of our privacy begin? Though it may be true that the government should not control deeply personal decisions, such as the decision to marry or the freedom of a woman to control what is done to her body, there are times when decisive executive choices must be made without leaving the responsibility to the common people. This fact does not work against America’s goals of democracy and self-sufficiency, but rather proves that our government can support these goals by taking action to solve serious nationwide problems.

What does your privacy mean to you? Privacy to me is being able to do what I want or need to do without having to worry about other people watching me, but law enforcement camera's could change everyones perspective on privacy. I believe that law enforcement camera's are an invasion of privacy because some city's put their camera's where they know, and willingly invade our privacy. This is unconstitutional, invades our privacy and some officers abuse their power with the camera's they have access too. Security camera's were put out to give the people a sense of security but now its being over used.

our privacy is more violated than mine. You don’t have random checks at the airport, you don’t get interrogated by TSA when you’re simply headed to another city, and you don’t have to constantly prove to others that your religion isn’t based on violence and that you do not in any way condone terrorist attacks. An entire religion cannot be blamed for the actions of some individuals. As an African-American Muslim in this society, I may be viewed as someone who doesn’t deserve the right to privacy. The right to be left alone and make decisions about marriage, political affiliation, and religion.

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In today’s day and age, privacy and keeping what belongs to you private, is a very sensitive yet important matter. Luckily, in the Bill of Rights there is a Fourth Amendment right to privacy and improper search and seizer. There are also many court cases that prove why that the right to privacy matters and plays a key role in our society. Another new major problem is that of wiretapping. The government will listen in on the phone calls of citizens, go through their internet searches, and read their emails and texts without them knowing it, and it is becoming a problem for most people. In today’s society, the government keeps itself very private to the public, but the privacy of the citizens is not a concern when the government violates the fourth amendment right, wiretaps phones, and ignores past court cases that stress the importance of the people’s right to privacy.

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.

In an everyday basis people living in America are getting constantly watched so their privacy, is not private. Police is taking this too far, they are violating innocent people privacy. In the article, Winton, 2012. "Long Beach police to use 400 cameras city wise to fight crime." It explains that their police is over exaggerating with their surveillance, watching over innocent person’s and looking over their private information instead of looking over those who are not innocent and have some sort of crime in their record. Not everyone should be watched, especially if their not doing anything that is causing any harm to others. Police should know who to hunt down and spy, and not go hunting everyone else down.

Our privacy is more important than national security. I would say that is not okay and should not be allowed. In July 2013 Edward Snowden released documents about “the patriot act”. The patriot act was a document president bush issued in 2001. president Barack obama later reissued the document in June 2015.

The tension between national security and individual privacy has long existed even before the development of digitized information. Recently, two main forces have advanced the debate over this balance to the forefront of the public eye: 1) the proliferation of data by private sector companies and 2) the heightened need for homeland security and public defense. With the rapid evolution of technology, companies have aggregated pools of consumer data to improve upon internal decision making. In some cases, however, this data can be leveraged to ensure national security and public safety. This juxtaposition of enterprise and security results in a blurring of the line dividing public and private sector responsibilities. The question becomes an issue of moral obligation versus legal responsibility. What are we as consumers and citizens willing to sacrifice in exchange for safety? And does the private sector inevitably succumb to obligations originating from the public sector?