Argumentative Essay: Should The United States Surveillance Society

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A surveillance society is a society where surveillance technology is widely used to monitor people’s everyday activities. I do believe that the United States has become a surveillance society and the debate continues weather rights are being violated and how much surveillance is too much. Although how much do we really know about the extent to which they are able to control and monitor us, lets take a deeper look. What are the constitutional implications of alleged government spying programs, well first off the main reasoning behind the programs in our hopes would be to ensure safety. There are many forms of government spying programs and many are unaware at all. The constitutional implications of alleged government spying programs are directly …show more content…

Although they are related to and directly working with NSA, PRISM, SIGINT, FISC, and SIGAD ass intelligence agencies as well as related to the surveillance programs within the law as they all work together. From the article by Chantal you can relate the arguments to how they are looking at it and to where we want to go for reforms. For example, “The arguments for customary international law on both sides of the surveillance debate, though compelling, seem to fall short of establishing binding international norms. Although many nations have implemented domestic legislation protecting the privacy rights of their own citizens from unwarranted surveillance by their own intelligence agencies, there are no significant international agreements protecting individual privacy rights from modern foreign intelligence collection, thereby being insufficient to meet the state practice prong of becoming part of international custom (Khalil 938).” The reforms I advocate to preserve privacy in the digital age while gathering intelligence on potential threats is to only step in when it is

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