The Surveilance Program

House news on Edward Snowden, a former contractor of the National Security Agency (NSA), is still fresh in our heads, all the secrets he has leaked are well known all over the world. Snowden leaked that the US National Security Agency monitored US citizens and is using a surveillance program or PRISM. This program has the right to check suspicious phones outside the United States and outside the United States using telephone metadata obtained from a telecommunications company (Snowden). This program began on and after September 11, 2001, in order to prevent future terrorism against the United States.

In June 2013, Edward Snowden issued a document to publish the National Security Association Surveillance Program (Volz 1). Edward Snowden has a lot of debate about whether the National Security Agency is correctly conducting these monitoring programs for citizens, and whether they are tracking them through technology. The National Security Agency collects data in mobile ways, messaging, social media, mobile apps, photograph intercepts, and other methods by New York Public Radio (Avirgan 1). - In Humer's "political authority issue" people are opposed to the idea of ​​political authority. Political authority is defined as a characteristic of the government that allows them to do things that morals can not be done to the public. The idea of ​​this discussion is that the government should not have the rights that citizens do not have.

Most Americans have heard about the US government's surveillance program and some people have changed their behavior. According to a survey from November 2014 to January 2015, 87% of people are fully aware of federal monitoring plans, 25% of adults who know these plans and 22% of adults I responded to being in Snowden. After disclosure, at least to some extent, they changed the way they use technology. In addition, 61% of those who knew the plan said that confidence in public interest in these programs is decreasing.

People who understand government monitoring programs say they are increasingly skeptical about the US supervisory program. 87% of respondents said they have heard of these programs, "The creation of a recent report on government monitoring programs has been seen in the last few months, confident in these programs, or About 61% of respondents said they were not confident and 37% said they were confident.