Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

around the world with this massive surveillance machine they 're secretly building.” You may initially feel betrayed, but Obama formally announced that the NSA acts solely in the name of safety right? Have we begun to sacrifice the freedom and

is a day that acts as a launch pad for the National Security Agency (NSA) and the plea for unlawful surveillance of Americans. The National Security Agency is understood to have the power to “global monitoring, collection, decoding, and analysis -- through clandestine means -- of information for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes” (Nsa 1). Following 9/11, the Bush administration created the USA PATRIOT Act, established in a time of distress. “The USA PATRIOT Act, giving the government

on the public without their say, it is not good and against their basic human rights. The year is 2013 and Edward Snowden is living in Hawaii. He is working at an NSA facility for Booz Allen Hamilton. The NSA mission is to protect military and intelligence networks against intruders. In May he took a plane to Hong Kong to get away from the U.S. because he had leaked documents that showed the NSA had been

Revenge of the 5th This editorial is intended to open the eyes of older and middle-aged Americans who are involved in the technology community that we live, but don't understand the hidden repercussions that permeate through their phone, computer, and laptop use. Not many people understand how the government's abilities affect their daily lives, and some are even completely ignorant to their privacy actions. I intend to inform them about the dangers of releasing personal information into the

In today’s society, countless surveillance methods are in place. These can range from simple cameras to high-tech home monitoring. Times have changed from the large cameras of the 1900s. Cameras can now be as small as a pin’s needle. Full scale home protection systems use video surveillance to watch over the home 24 hours a day. While this is considered a great advancement in technology, the privacy of the people is a concern. Government surveillance is needed due to the terrorist threats,

personalities and sense of identity over time? Although it could potentially change people for the greater good, these people would not truly act as they are. I truly believe there is not one person who acts exactly the same around people as they do alone, and if they are constantly being monitored that would likely change their mindset on how they act. In George Orwell’s 1984 “Big Brother”, Orwell proposes the

attacks changed the use of domestic surveillance drastically, causing a chain of events leading up to today’s issues. The USA PATRIOT Act marked the beginning of the era of modern surveillance and continues to have an effect on the United States. “USA PATRIOT” is an acronym for “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism” (USA PATRIOT Act). This act, passed in October of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act), gave government investigators the

Sharath Thomas Professor Hugetz ENGL 1301.08 05 April 2016 NSA Surveillance - Constitutional or Unconstitutional The US Constitution came to life 230 years ago, but recent actions of the National Security Agency is interpreted to be defying the Bill of Rights by the government and depriving the citizens their constitutional right to privacy. However, when posed with the question:

FISA was created in 1978 to regulate the NSA. Up until the events of September 11th, 2001, the NSA was used strictly as a tool for foreign investigation to decipher international communications (“Frequently Asked Questions About NSA” 1). Twenty-three days after the Twin Towers fell, President Bush passed the Patriot Act (“Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying” 16). This act ushered the NSA into a position of limitless capability. Millions of Americans are having their personal lives followed, tracked

Internet surveillance were rudimentary and non-invasive at their creation, but on October 26th, 2001, everything changed. The Patriot Act was signed into law, just forty-five days after the horrifying terrorist attack on the Twin Towers. The USA PATRIOT Act, more commonly known as the Patriot Act, was not a single piece of legislature, but a package of amendments to preexisting laws. The most notable changes in the Patriot Act are the amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978