Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

fueled debates over mass surveillance, government secrecy, and the balance between national security and information privacy. In this paper, we will look at exactly how these mass surveillance programs are affecting us as U.S. citizens. Are they are violating our right to privacy? Is it possible for our country to protect us from a terrorist attack, while maintaining everyone’s right to privacy? To what extent

President Obama’s Approach to the War on Terror After the attacks on 9/11, the “War on Terror” became President Bush’s main focus for his political agenda. After the 2008 presidential election, soon that focus belonged to President Obama. The executive actions, legislation, and controversy that resulted during Bush’s presidency would soon be inherited by President Obama. During President Obama’s campaign in 2008, he promised that he would be very different from President Bush in how he employed

Reuters published an article revealing that Yahoo Inc. had secretly made a custom program that scanned all of its customers incoming emails. The Article stated that this was done in compliance with a classified demand handed down from one of the intelligence Agencys of the United States. It goes on to further state that the program was discovered by a security team in May of 2015, when a security team thought that the yahoo system was being hacked. While legally permissible, it was morally wrong for

having that much information and power, it can only spell trouble for the future. Critics are also quick to point out that obtaining the warrant to investigate is more than easily done by officials. Feingold explains that since the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, was passed in 1978, almost every request for a warrant was approved. Meaning that if the NSA wanted a warrant to wiretap, they were pretty much granted it. FISA also permits immediate wiretap warrant taps as long as the government

Today in our society, the United States government has full access to every citizen’s personal information. This information ranges from our names, phone numbers, addresses, and even our Social Security number. While some of our information should be private, a lot of it is accessible to the public. In fact, our personal information is so public that even a complete stranger that lives one hundred miles away can type your name in and find out where we live and contact us via email and by telephone

November 4, 1952. World War II had just ended with the Allied Forces claimed as the victors, mass hysteria flooded the United States of America and the president was tasked with creating an organization that prevented brutal attacks from being executed to the American people (Frequently…). The president at the time, Harry S. Truman, established what has in recent light become one of the most controversial American governmental agencies known as the National Security Agency, NSA for short. Recent

which likely constituted perjury, officials of the National Security Agency (NSA) admitted to having conducted unwarranted surveillance of Americans, a violation of the protections against such searches provided by the Fourth Amendment.” "NSA Admits Directly Targeting Americans for Warrantless Surveillance." NSA Admits Directly Targeting Americans for Warrantless Surveillance. Web. 8 Apr. 2015. The NSA abuses their power by going to the extreme and spying on innocent citizens warrantless. It isn’t

Does NSA’s secret surveillance program violates fourth amendment? Can people abuse it? A few months ago, Edward Snowden leaked confidential information about a NSA surveillance program known as PRISM. NSA agents have been recording and listening to our phone calls, reading our text messages and emails, and archiving our activities. There has been controversy about whether it is a violation of our privacy right. There has been a lot of talk about abuse of this program. Journalists have

Under the Bush Administration, the Protect America Act was passed in the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001. As a result, in 2007, the National Security Agency designed and operated a surveillance program called ‘Prism’. The programs’ intent is to gather web communications from major United States internet corporations. Under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, Prism collects suspicious stored web communication and further employs communication

When I think of what intelligence surveillance is things such as the CIA and covert espionage come to mind. Like the U.S. spying on foreign countries to gather intelligence, but it is not just foreign countries that are being spied on. The U.S. also conducts surveillance on its own citizens because of the rising fear of terrorism. Technology is rapidly progressing and techniques in which the U.S. Government can conduct surveillance are progressing with it. There are laws set in place that prevent