Edward Snowden Violations

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A person monitoring and recording your every movement is the same as the National Security Agency (NSA) monitoring your movements through any electronic devices and apps like your phone and social media. The National Security Agency (NSA) is currently in charge as the protector of the U.S Government. Secretly the Congress passed and President George Bush signed the USA Patriot Act months after the terrorist attack that happened on September 11th, 2001. The Patriot Act "expanded the government’s right to conduct surveillance to improve security. It allows for searches without consent, steps up detention of illegal immigrants, and allows the FBI to search phone and email records without a court order(KQED Learning)". This allows the NSA to go …show more content…
The NSA has not violated our rights as a citizen of the United States but has also violated the rights of those above us all. The NSA has gone too far violating our privacy, if it wasn't for Edward Snowden (ex-NSA official), many would not know about the illegal work that the NSA are doing. It is true that they have the Patriot Act backing them up, but the Patriot Act has ignored one of our most important amendment, that is the 4th …show more content…
They do the opposite of what the 4th amendment taking personal information's; tracking all your movement, bank account, phone calls, messages, emails and all for security purposes.

All the movement the NSA are doing isn't that efficient. The NSA monitors everyone's doing for "security" purposes to prevent crimes like 9/11 and track illegal drug trafficking and more, but the governments has not a single case in which analysis of the NSA's bulk data collection has actually stopped an imminent terrorist attack. That means that the NSA spying on its people isn't
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