The Importance Of NSA Spying

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When it comes down to who is watching us, the biggest question is what exact information does the NSA collect and how. We don’t know all the different types of information the NSA collects, but several secrets collection programs have been revealed. It is not necessary that the government only spy’s on suspects, even- after all of the revelations by Edward Snowden and other people chiming in- in reality government surveillance is spying on everyone’s digital and old fashioned communication (John Webber, 2004). For example, the government is photographing the outside information of every piece of mail we receive. The government spy’s on us through the phone, our remotes and our cameras, even when we think they’re turned off. Tracking back to 9/11, shortly after the attacks, congress approved the USA patriot act, which gave government the control the information of Americans. Going a little further back into George W Bush days, he “authorized the NSA to produce a highly classified “wiretapping” program.” (Kelly Norris 8) This allowed the government to be in controls with everything we do when involved with technology, with out a warrant. One of the most important and widely known programs is called PRISM. A judge in a secret court order approved PRISM, this allowed government to seize actual live conversations: emails, videos chats, instant messages, etc. Americans are aware of this highly classified; intelligence-gathering …show more content…
Orwell wrote, “I do not believe that the kind of society I describe necessarily will arrive, but I believe that something resembling it could arrive” (George Orwell, 1984) very much, most of the elements of 1984 do exist in American society