The Nsa 's Prism Program Information Without Public Knowledge

The NSA PRISM program allowed US Intelligence Services to collect private information of users utilising services such as Facebook and Gmail in order to guard its countries interests.

The NSA, or National Security Agency, is an American government intelligence agency responsible for collecting data on other countries and sometimes on American citizens in order to protect the country from outside risks. They can collect anything from the people’s phone data to their browser history and use it against them in the court of law. Since the catastrophes of September 11 attacks, the NSA’s surveillance capabilities have grown with the benefit of George W. Bush and the Executive Branch (Haugen 153). This decision has left a country divided for fifteen years, with people who agree that the NSA should be strengthened and others who think their powers should be limited or terminated. Although strengthening NSA surveillance may help the

The National Security Agency (NSA) has been an information gathering arm of the Executive branch since the Cold War and continues to be an essential part of ensuring the security of the United States. The public issue that involves the NSA is the spying of U.S citizens which can be seen as a violation of the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution. This was revealed to the public by the whistleblower Edward Snowden who released classified documents of activities that the NSA had been conducting in conjuncture with telecommunication companies, which angered many U.S citizens and received media coverage with a call for the U.S Government to restrict the NSA’s activities or at least for there to be Congressional oversight. This debate revolves around how much the NSA’s surveillance activities are actually used for national security as well as the constitutionality of the NSA’s surveillance. This all began after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 when there was a call for the attacks to never happen again and the adoption of the Patriot Act in that same year which increased the power of the NSA.

Court, many people think the surveillance programs are unconstitutional. They argue that it breaks the First and Fourth Amendments set in the constitution. The reasoning is that they are not protected against unreasonable search and seizure (Donohue). Critics contend that it is also an invasion of privacy in the lives of United States citizens and has shown little about preventing terrorist attacks (Brown). There have been arguments about freedom of speech and press in this case too. Google had filed a court petition saying that the gag order barring disclosure was a violation of its freedom of speech. Google had wanted to release the number of user accounts that were associated with the PRISM program because the reports about the program were misleading (Pepitone). In one case, Judge Richard Leon ruled the collection of phone records unconstitutional. He stated, “I cannot imagine a more ‘indiscriminate’ and ‘arbitrary invasion’ than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval.” (Mears and Perez). Even though it was ruled unconstitutional by Judge Leon, the surveillance programs are constitutional according to the U.S. Court.

Lately, in the United States, the controversial topic of privacy has been rekindled by several occurrences, including the recent NSA surveillance scandal. When government actions are questioned, the

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.

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.

In “How the NSA’s Domestic Spying Program Works,” the author reveals that many of “aspects of the (NSA) Program were aimed not just at targeted individuals, but perhaps millions of innocent Americans never suspected of a crime.” The author develops his thesis by detailing a few examples of major telecommunication companies that share customer’s call records to the NSA (AT&T, Sprint) and explaining that programs were implemented to monitor the emails of citizens (“amounted to at least 1.7 billion emails a day”). The author uses examples of how NSA decisions were made without a “warrant or any judicial oversight,” in order to increase citizen awareness of how the NSA functions. The author uses a erudite tone to address the audience of Americans

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

We all value our privacy, and we all know that privacy can conflict with other important social values. However, in this increasingly digital and technological world, we are more susceptible than ever to government intrusion of our digital communications and data. This came to light in June 2013, when former National Security Agency (NSA) employee Edward Snowden revealed thousands of classified documents detailing the intrusive mass surveillance and bulk data collection of the NSA to journalists and subsequently the American public. As a result, widespread distrust and questioning of the American government’s data-collection programs grew among American citizens and bipartisan leaders who were also subject to the surveillance apparatus of the

Throughout history, we as a country have worked tirelessly to improve our laws and rights as citizens. Constitutionally, we are require to have specific privacy rights or acts that protect us. At least it would be presumed that way, up until topics like government spying break that assumption of safety of our calls, searches, emails, and history on our devices. The uproar that occurred in early June of 2013, was due to a so called security program called PRISM. Prism is not just any security programs. This specific program was created by the NSA and FBI and used to tap into servers without consent. Reading articles such as, “ NSA Prism program taps into user data of Apple, Google and Others” by Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill from The Guardian

The government has the power to create laws that will create a fair and equal society. One of the most valued laws is the fourth amendment, stating, “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or Affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized” (Are National Security Agency). However, over the years they have violated the basic rights of privacy towards citizens by searching through their personal records, even if they aren’t showing suspicious behavior. USA Today had reported that the NSA had collecting phone record of many Americans and exposed their actions, revealing “reaching into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans-most of whom aren’t suspected of crime” (Are National Security Agency). Since NSA is required to operate secretly it gives it’s employees a lot of power, to search and seize personal files without being punished by the government. Since the employees are trusted by the government they can easily take advantage of being able to access an unlimited amount of personal information. The Washington Post describes how many rules the NSA has violated, stating, “That a declassified May 2012 internal NSA audit had found that the agency had violated privacy rules thousands of times over a one-year period” (Are National Security Agency). This opens the eyes of many American citizens and only convinces them that the government can easily fool them behind all of their secret operations and break their

To begin, government spying creates potential risks to public trust, personal privacy, and civil liberty, which is why dometic programs that allows bulk data to be stored should be put to an end. With the Patriot coming to an end, the senate voted to end NSA’s bulk data collection programs to end on may 13. “[T]he House overwhelmingly passed the USA Freedom Act by a vote of 338-88 . The bill would take the storage of bulk telephony metadata away from the government and would instead rely on the telecom

Although the mere presence of security cameras and profiling systems is hardly considered distressing to most, more malevolent creatures assuredly lie underneath the superficial surface. The PRISM program, launched by the National Security Agency and leaked by NSA contractor Edward Snowden, is such a creature. According to the Washington Post article “NSA Slides Explain the PRISM Data-Collection Program”, it is a clandestine mass surveillance program that essentially deputizes server-providing corporations such as Microsoft, Apple, and Google among many others, to amass data for data mining purposes. Furthermore, the packets of data garnered

Silhouettes of ones mental connections casted like a shadow on the electronically web leave us believing we are safe. Here we find ones own heavenly soliloquy of thoughts not aware that the room is darker than we knew and can not see the light of others viewers glares. On the interface of the internet we intrust the recipes of our daily life are thrown away like a grocery store end transition. This is not the case as the invasion of ones privacy is always in danger.Through a government run program the use order has dove into the ordeal of tracking the recipe of most american online interactions on the web. The Government should not be allowed to use PRISM to get personal information of ones life through any means of virtual back tracking until proven guilty of indefinite terrorist interaction.