Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Surveillance Over the decades, as technology advanced, surveillance became easier and easier. In the 21st century, people live in the world of ubiquitous surveillance, where everything becomes collected, saved, searched, correlated and analyzed. Surveillance generally means to keep close watch over someone or something. While a root word in surveillance is veil, which portrays imagery as saving face, or hiding. The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and other federal agencies are engaging in the

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 was a necessary measure signed by President Jimmy Carter in an effort to stop the CIA, FBI, NSA, and other executive powers from conducting warrantless wiretaps of domestic groups for so-called national security purposes. This was necessary because findings by the Church Committee in the early 1970s suggested that warrantless wiretapping had been going on for quite some time by these government entities and was exacerbated by President Nixon and the

The National Security Agency of the United States has created a confidential surveillance program named PRISM, operating as the world’s largest “Planning Tool for Resource Integration, Synchronization, and Management”. This program is designed to gather and process “foreign intelligence” that travels through the United States, by extracting data from some of the world’s largest tech companies and its users. The United States describes itself as the “Worlds telecommunications backbone”, which was

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

give up our constitutional rights in the face of fear. The NSA’s dragnet surveillance programs, such as PRISM, are both ineffective and are surpassed by less questionable national security programs. The FISA court's’ approval of NSA actions are not only illegal, but exist as an embarrassing formality. Surveillance is a necessary

Government Surveillance Imagine a world where your every move was being monitored. A dark world where it is no secret who you are, where you have been and who you associate with; now include who you love, who you pray to and what you just ate for dinner. The word privacy doesn’t exist in such world and it is such world that we are heading to.“Big Brother is watching you!” This quote by George Orwell couldn’t have been truer. Every aspect of our lives is being sorted through as Big Data this very

sharing a little TOO much information. The National Security Agency (NSA) is an intelligence organization created by the United States government. The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence. Today, the NSA states that

Since the Edward Snowden leak in 2013, the controversy over NSA surveillance has focused on the invasion of privacy of United States citizens. Specifically the bulk collection programs that have picked up American phone data, even of those who haven't done anything wrong. This invasion of privacy has been deemed unconstitutional by many and for good reason. In recent years, the NSA controversy has become more eminent, mostly due to the Edward Snowden Leak in 2013. This leak revealed sensitive information

Gathering of intelligence and espionage has been a fundamental part of American security since the earliest days of the United States. Shortly after President George Washington took office in 1789, he petitioned Congress to allocate a "secret fund" in the State Department budget for the purpose of gathering foreign intelligence. By George Washington's third year in office, the "secret fund" was 12 percent of the federal budget. The first permanent intelligence organization the United States established

founded April 4, 2000 and not long after, they were considered the largest mobile network companies in the United Stated. Verizon was ordered under the Patriots Act Section 215 by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to supply individual and business cell phone data. The court was created by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 and provides judges appointed by the president. The review