Look who's listening

The Guardian, a British newspaper, reported that America’s national security agency (NSA) will be collecting the telephone records of millions of americans not suspected of crimes. In addition, NSA will also start a program named PRISM which will collect emails, photos, videos, file transfers, and social-networking date from big internet companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, YouTube, Skype, and Microsoft. These telephone records have been going on for years. Edward Snoden, a man who had worked as a security contractor at the NSA, reveals how he feels about this plan. He mentioned how he does not feel safe living in a world where everything he says and does is recorded. Not everyone is a criminal, thus not everyone’s every move should be analyzed, he says. NSA has been listening in on the world’s communications, like soviet leaders to Osama bin Laden’s satellite phone. Therefore, although this plan to “spy” on people might make people not feel safe because they are constantly being checked on, it also makes people feel protected. NSA has the ability to use their system to protect their citizens from dangerous people like Osama bin Laden, before he died. However, Barack Obama has ordered for this plan to not listen on the content of calls, but to collect data of the records of who people call, when, for how long, and so on. 

This is significant to me because I feel uncomfortable that the government can look through my private conversations and affairs. It makes me feel unprotected because random people can find out private information about me from the internet. NSA should not be able to see my information, it is an extreme disadvantage of the internet. 

 

NSA uses verizon to find their information.

http://www.twincities.com/national/ci_23399345/nsa-wants-all-u-s-phone-records-from

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21579473-americas-national-security-agency-collects-more-information-most-people-thought-will