The Nsa's Program Prism

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.

He revealed through this program, telecommunication companies like Verizon and AT&T would hand over information to the government to analyze phone calls. They would analyze things like the duration and location of the calls, telephone numbers, and serial numbers on the phone. Through the PRISM program, Internet programs would hand over information to the government who would then have access to emails, videos, photos, and chat services (Clobes). Since his release of the information, Edward Snowden fled to Russia and is currently living there. He faces two counts of violating the Espionage Act and theft of government property (Finn and Horwitz). Many people think these surveillance programs are unconstitutional and are breaking the Fourth Amendment, which says people have the right to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and

On June 6, 2013 the details of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance activities where given by Edward Snowden to the public; raising concerns of Americans about their privacy. Edward Snowden, a former employee of the NSA, gave the alarming details of surveillance programs in his interview on how the NSA accesses our emails, calls, internet activity, and anything else that is related to technology. In this system of surveillance the NSA can gather data from companies and tap the cables that are vital for moving around information from technological devices, they may also use their relationships with technology companies to get emails or information straight from U.S. servers. (Cawley, Kiss, Boyd, Ball) Nevertheless, the claim is

Disturbingly the National Security Agency (NSA) has been collecting metadata on Americans personal telephones and electronics devices for several years. This collection was happening before the NSA Analyst Edward Snowden leaked these facts to the world in late 2013. The NSA was formed in the 1950’s, and during this time frame the NSA disseminated intelligence information from electronic signals for foreign and counter intelligence purposes, which supported the American military needs. Currently the NSA has refocused their spying tactics to technology driven devices. The NSA has an extensive “telephone-metadata program, since 2001, and they collect phone records of virtually all Americans” (Lizza, 2013).

On June 6th, 2013, the Guardian and the Washington Post have published reports on the CIA's program called Prism. The information was provided by a former employee of the US National Security Agency, Edward Snowden. According to the confirmed data, the largest world companies, including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and YouTube actively cooperated with the secret services. Many of them reported the information and data about their users not only in the US, but also in other countries of the world. Thus, the special services were able to access our e-mail messages, social media publications, contact lists, documents stored in the computers, audio and video files.

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

In 2013, word spread rapidly through the United States and the rest of the world that the National Security Agency had access to files that the general public was unaware of due to these reforms. Edward Snowden, a former Central Intelligence Agent, leaked the truth about the NSA’s conduct to reporters and newspapers nationwide. The files that Snowden was referring to include call records and contents, emails, Facebook posts, instant messages, and Google searches. The NSA also hacked into various servers around the world, breaking some foreign countries’ laws. Those servers even included those of allied countries like Germany and other Western democracies. While they believed that their actions were technically legal within U.S. law, they were blatantly breaking the laws of foreign

In 2014, the whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the United States spies on its citizens and on political figures in other countries. Snowden leaked that the NSA “tapped directly into the servers of 9 internet firms, including Facebook, google, Microsoft, and yahoo, to track online communications in a surveillance program known as Prism (“Edward Snowden: Leaks”).” These communications are archived in California. The NSA also knows where citizens have been travelling through the use of traffic cameras and security cameras on both private and public properties. Drones and satellites also help track the movement of individuals

Snowden then made a choose to copy Top-secret NSA documents while he was at work. He gathered a significant amount of documents that he found invasive and disturbing. One of the Programs was PRISM. PRISM is a clandestine surveillance program under which the United States NSA collects internet communications from at least nine major US internet companies. Since 2001 the United States government has increased its scope for such surveillance, and so this program was launched in 2007 . PRISM program, including Microsoft in 2007, Yahoo! in 2008, Google in 2009,Facebook in 2009, Paltalk in 2009, YouTube in 2010, AOL in 2011, Skype in 2011 and Apple in

“The exposure of the PRISM program under which the NSA monitors foreign terrorists on the Internet, as well as the leak of a top-secret court order requiring Verizon to share calling data with the government, are incredibly damaging to national security. These leaks give terrorists information they did not have about our collection activities,” columnist Marc Theissen of the Washington Post said. What this means is that Edward Snowden spread vital information about the U.S. government. Foreign terrorists now know they can be monitored in the U.S. So the terrorists will now most likely strategize a way to avoid being heard and watched.. Since Snowden leaked this information, the job of the U.S. Government to protect its citizens has gotten harder.

In June 2013, Edward Snowden leaked secret files on the PRISM Program, a shady program millions of American never even knew existed. Four years ago, Snowden released numerous files regarding the NSA’s PRISM Program that only a handful of people knew about. Why it is an important issue you may ask, well honestly you’re being watched by our ‘beloved government’ while we live out our private lives. This PRISM program should be ended because it invades privacy, violates the constitution, and weakens the trust we put in our government.

When the average American hears the word “spy” an image of a secret agent deep in the heart of Soviet territory, or a memory of his or her favorite James Bond movie probably pops into his or her head. This glorification of spying is no doubt a product of Hollywood’s dramatic representation of what they think a spy should be. The reality of what modern day spying consists of came as a shock to most when on June 5, 2013, an NSA contractor by the name of Edward Snowden executed what many consider to be the most significant leak of government information in U.S. history. Overnight, the American people learned that their government had been executing personal data collection of massive proportions. It was the U.S. Government’s worst fear, the people

From the massive amount of information Snowden leaked to the world came three revelations regarding the specifics of three surveillance programs: Prism, more insight into FISA, and XkeyScore. In simple terms, Prism is an example of the US government using its corporate power to force major communications companies, including Google and Apple, to create a backdoor that could be opened regardless of whether those companies were ever notified. A constant point of access such as Prism facilitates the free collection of everything from emails, internet searches, or documents shared using those mediums, thereby making nearly all internet activity subject to the scrutiny of the government. As for the case of FISA, the public learned that the court had used its power to extend their capability in terms of cellular surveillance. During one of his first interviews after the leak, Snowden described the Verizon document, which detailed the FISA court ruling which forces Verizon Mobility, among other providers, to share all of their data with the NSA, as an example of the NSA “using an authority that was intended to be used to seek warrants against individuals, and applying it to the whole of society.” And finally, there’s XkeyScore: a program best described as a search engine for intelligence community. Frequently described as the NSA’s “widest-reaching” program, XkeyScore is a “program [which] allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing

While working for the NSA, Snowden became aware of their extensive trespasses against the privacy of U.S. and international citizens alike. Upon considering the extent of these trespasses, Snowden felt that it was his moral duty, as he stated, “to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them”. His provided information showed the use of Internet surveillance programs, and the evaluation of phone records in the form of “metadata”. Many argue that Snowden’s leaking of information has hindered our government’s ability to intercept terrorist plots, by informing the world of the NSA’s capabilities, and therefore allowing terrorist groups to plot attacks beyond the reach of U.S. surveillance. In light of this, Snowden’s leak has indeed made us more vulnerable to terrorist attacks, but does this justify the NSA’s chosen use of power? Since Snowden’s revelations, it has become evident that the NSA consistently uses their surveillance abilities to unjustified ends. One function of the NSA’s electronic data analysis is to find targets for the military’s Joint Special Operations Command to strike with lethal drone attacks. Many innocent civilians in middle-eastern countries have lost their lives as a result of this military sect’s reliance on the NSA’s data, rather than human correspondence. According to an anonymous former drone-operator, the victims of these attacks “might have been terrorists, or they could have been

However, The NSA and US government have no proof that the data Snowden disclosed has made any damage. Off course it has brought embarrassment to NSA because NSA itself was carrying out worldwide, domestic and constitutional violations. Obviously as Near and Miceli explained that administrators may oppose the wrongdoing on the grounds that generally would raise doubt about their administrative decision authorities. Snowden tried his best to follow the built up methodology for conveying this essential data to the overall population. However, they didn’t work.