NSA surveillance protesters marched in Washington DC in October 2013 between us and the others But we are in almost every country in the world We are not at war with these countries The NSA had collected almost 200 million text messages each day from around the globe The NSA used these messages to gather information on the users locations contacts and financial statuses Much of the I do not want to live in a world where everything I do information collected came from and say is recorded That is people who were not under not something I am willing to suspicion of any crimes While US support or live under Edward Snowden law gives the NSA legal authority
for some types of surveillance the legal system is also intended to protect the privacy of innocent US citizens However the leaked documents suggested the NSA was breaking US privacy PRIVACY laws hundreds of times every PROTECTION year An internal NSA audit Privacy is protected by laws identified 2 776 violations of the including the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution This rules or court orders regarding part of the Bill of Rights surveillance from April 2011 prohibits the US government through March 2012 from conducting unreasonable searches and seizures of In the previous year NSA property including a person's representatives denied the home The Fourth Amendment also requires search warrants to NSA collected data on millions be based upon probable cause of Americans or even had the and to specifically describe technical ability to intercept what is to be searched or online communications in the seized The Internet age has introduced a new virtual home United States Yet according which includes cloud storage to Snowden The NSA According to the President's has built an infrastructure Council of Advisors on Science that allows it to intercept and Technology the Fourth Amendment protection of a almost everything With this person's home should logically capability the vast majority of extend to include property that human communications are is stored online However the Fourth Amendment has not yet automatically ingested without been officially interpreted to targeting If I wanted to see your protect the new virtual home e mails or your wife's phone all T have to do is use intercepts
CHANGING LAWS FISA The US government's powers of surveillance are detailed by laws including the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act FISA FISA originally required the government to get a warrant before monitoring a US citizen's communications The FISA Amendments Act passed on July 10 2008 greatly expanded the power of the NSA The NSA could now access information directly without a warrant In fact it did not even have to ask the companies for access or let anyone know when it had accessed records Immediately after the 2008 amendments were enacted the American Civil Liberties Union ACLU filed a lawsuit alleging the law was unconstitutional The ACLU filed the case on behalf of a large group of human rights legal labor and media organizations In February 2013 the Supreme Court dismissed the ACLU's lawsuit The ACLU brought another lawsuit against the NSA after Edward Snowden revealed the extent of the NSA's spying on US citizens A federal district court dismissed this lawsuit In both cases the courts stated the ACLU's clients did not have the standing to bring a lawsuit because they could not show the NSA was monitoring their communications As of 2016 the FISA Amendments Act stands but the future may bring more challenges I can get your e mails passwords phone records credit cards From the telephone records the government could see what calls were made but could not hear the conversations Still taken together it meant the NSA could access nearly all of a person's communications An official NSA statement denied any misuse of power and many countries have similar surveillance programs PRIVACY VERSUS SECURITY Some people feel the loss of privacy is worthwhile especially when it comes to national security Senator Dianne Feinstein wrote in a 2013 Wall Street Journal op ed
Senator Dianne Feinstein spoke out about the benefits of NSA surveillance with regard to national security Working in combination the call records database and other NSA programs have aided efforts by US intelligence agencies to disrupt terrorism in the US approximately a dozen times in recent years according to the NSA This summer the agency disclosed that 54 terrorist events have been interrupted including plots stopped and Criminals and terrorists arrests made for support to would like nothing more than terrorism for us to miss out 12 James Comey FBI director Despite those apparent criticizing technology that encrypts data successes many people were
