The Pros And Cons Of Government Monitoring

However, despite its unpopularity amongst many citizens, government surveillance still has many benefits to the society. In this essay we will discuss the advantages of government surveillance and espionage in detail. The following essay will discuss how government surveillance will counter terrorism and reduce crime rate which will lead to greater diplomacy, freedom, and increased sense of safety. In addition, the essay will discuss how government surveillance can help improve public health care system in Canada by allowing greater access to scientific data that may not be easily accessed. Last but not least, the essay will discuss how government surveillance may also be advantageous to Canadian economy by helping domestic businesses prosper and grow by increasing the efficiency of their business model.

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 founding fathers created the government to unite, and protect The United States. The government must also be able to protect citizens basic rights. These rights are written as amendments to our constitution. Our government has a duty to protect United States citizens, and with new technology this need for protection has extended to the internet. Federal, state, and local governments have a duty to protect their people, and to do this minimal forms of internet monitoring are needed.

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.

"Americans are unique due to our technological advancement, which means we set the precedent of how this new technology is to be controlled. The internet is an invention that raises new questions everyday. One controversial issue is wether or not the government_Ñés interference online is necessary. On one hand, the internet is a place where people speak up and speak out, even if it is against the government. Should the government be able to spy on this? If we let them take control of the internet, is that the same thing as limiting our freedom of speech? On the other hand, the internet is the prime location for criminal activity that goes far beyond simple teasing. Do we need government interference in order to protect us from criminals who hide behind the keyboard? Would monitoring the internet actually help prevent criminal activity such as terrorist attacks?

Government surveillance is frowned upon by many Americans but it is used to keep its citizens safe. Citizens believe this method of protection is used to spy on the innocent citizens of America for the government’s personal use. There is no evidence that the government has misused authority to track its citizens but it is still not accepted. Americans feel the fourth Amendment rights are being violated but the NSA says this is not true. The data from the cell phone towers are collected in a bulk, they constantly express the fact that the NSA does not want every citizens data ("How the NSA Is Tracking People Right Now." The Washington Post. WP Company, n.d. Web). A problem to this solution would be for the government to publicly televise the

The issue between government surveillance and individual rights has been around for a while now. Government surveillance is a topic that makes most people feel uncomfortable because the idea of having someone seeing your every move is disturbing. All though many say that it is for our own safety it still has several negative outcomes. For example, our personal privacy would be completely lost, the purchasing of programs and software to see everything would be expensive, and people would not feel safe due to the fact that they would not know who exactly is seeing their personal information and what they could do with it.

" The United States government has a responsibility to ensure that every American has access to an internet that has a freedom of information. The internet has become a necessity in our everyday lives. School age Americans use the internet for research projects and even to submit homework. A vast majority of working-age Americans use the internet for the jobs or are involved in producing the inputs necessary to advance technology and keeping the current technology infrastructure working. The U.S. government has a limited duty in monitoring internet content. The government should have the ability to protect Americans from cyber acts and personal information theft. Currently the Federal Trade Commission has the power to regulate the internet

Government surveillance is everywhere. It’s on street corner cameras, phones, computers, anywhere basically, and those things are unacceptable (Jessica Martin). People need their privacy; they need to feel free without having someone looking over one’s data every single minute of every day. People in the United States have the right to be free, even if they aren’t citizens, having surveillance on anyone is not right. It’s surprising how the government can see what you posted online or a private message sent to your friends and family. As human beings, one might feel protective of keeping some things private, so of course people don’t like the fact of having the government read their emails or hear private phone calls. This government surveillance kind of feels like it’s your own personal stalker in a way. One can't get any sense of ability, people are going to feel the need to speak of it, and, quite frankly, it's absolutely despicable.

Did you ever know that even in the privacy of your own room, you are being tracked by the government? The National Surveillance Agency (NSA) has been tracking Americans more specifically since 9/11 to prevent more attacks upon America. President George W. Bush felt the need to implement it after the traumatic incident, and domestic surveillance includes the tracking of credit cards, phones, internet, and much more. Some might think that their privacy is being neglected, while others feel surveillance is necessary. Domestic surveillance worsens society because it is illegal, invades privacy, and takes away human rights.

(Cyber-privacy? or cyber-surveillance? Legal responses to fear in cyberspace, 2014) There are two kinds of surveillance, one military-security. It mindset leads to the perception of cyberspace as militarised space and application of notions such as cyber-war. Another one is liberal-security; mindset generates a more balance approach to the needs of national security, versus the privacy of individual. Also, it illustrates an issue which is taking children's photography at school could cause danger. Citizens have rights to protect their privacy, nobody wants their information lost. Surveillance make citizens sleep with eyes open, they fear about governments steal their privacy. This threat is not easy to deal with, either real world and

We should all know that what we do with our technology isn’t secure. Maybe all of this is to prevent harm to our national security. I should know my ears and eyes are not the only ones viewing and listing to things I consider private. We should also see the sides to this topic understand people’s views. Because if we stick ourselves in a small bubbles without expanding, we’ll never know the reason behind the government’s logic. I also want to see how other countries feel about government surveillance. According to an article I encountered while researching the topic. I learned America is the most spied on country and monitored. Many citizens of the United States have claimed the government’s surveillance is a violation of the fourth amendment, “our home is a castle”. I believe that’s it is price to pay to live another without terrorism affecting my

Although surveillance can possess many benefits for citizens, some claim that the government does not have the right to watch its citizens through technology because few citizens are a threat and it would reduce the citizen's privacy. According to Pew Research Center, “Those who are aware of the government surveillance programs say they are becoming increasingly

The United States has led a global effort to limit individual privacy, while technologically enhancing the capability of its law enforcement agencies and intelligence services to eavesdrop on personal conversations; but there has recently been legislation introduced to limit government surveillance. The USA Freedom Act was passed on June 2,2015 by both Houses of Congress and it places restrictions on the NSA’s surveillance powers; this Act will make both the NSA and the FISA court more transparent and accountable. Passage of this Act ended the government’s bulk collection of American’s telephone records, and also weakened the telephone records surveillance program; the government will no longer be able to store the data, instead the telephone

"The United States government should monitor the internet content to the extent of which is necessary, in order to protect the state at which could be in danger of various crimes such as internet scams, child pornography and piracy. Though these issues remain circling the internet, the government still does not have complete control over the internet. This allows many criminals get away with the crimes they are committing. Therefore, I believe the government must find a way to monitor the internet but still respect the privacy of the world.