Government Surveillance in the Digital Age

The director of the government in the digital age imagined walking downtown during a sunny day. I also imagine that someone will follow you and shoot everything you do. The more annoying thing is that the US government has already done this, which is perfectly legal. According to St. Petersburg Times reporter Robert Trigo, as of August 2014, Tampa Police Station in Florida Ivor, the Tampa Police Station has 46 surveillance cameras to scan the face of all the people walking around the entertainment area I used it.

This is the golden age of surveillance. Today, technology is generating more information about us than ever and it will increase more and more by doing so. The government has established legal support for technology infrastructure and extensive surveillance, which is almost completely secret. However, in the interpretation of the judge of Sonya Sotomayor, these data can reveal you in psychiatrists, orthopedic surgeons, abortion clinics, AIDS treatment centers, strip clubs, criminal lawyers, hourly motels, union councils Mosque, synagogue, church, gay bar "

As a result of the digital revolution, many aspects of today's lives are captured and preserved in digital form. He expressed concern that the government could use this information to conduct extensive monitoring of the population. Commercial large scale surveillance is usually "copyright law" and "terms of service" used to "not normally based on information" or "consent" from the supervision of consumers using software or other related materials . This enables the collection of information that is technically illegal when executed by a government agency. In order to compromise the purpose of privacy protection, these data are often shared with government agencies and are actually shared.

The leak of Edward Snowden, a contractor of the former National Security Agency (NSA), violated the law and weakened ongoing information gathering, but they are also in the digital era of government surveillance discussion It represented the moment of the watershed. Leak shows that the size of government data collection, and even the legal and court-approved data collection size is orders of magnitude larger than most Americans think. This leak has caused the impression of the whole world (possibly caused by coverage of inaccurate media) The United States is indiscriminately collecting personal data of the general public.