The Pros And Cons Of Mass Surveillance

Mass electronic surveillance by US government started after the 9/11 tragedy and increase global terrorism, which forced the US government and intelligence agencies around the world to change to mass surveillance to protect their nations. Surveillance becomes the nationwide debate topic, once after Edward Snowdon’s leakage of classified information from the NSA. Surveillance helped the US military to kill Al-Qaeda agent and can save lives and prevent a catastrophic event from happening. However, government surveillance does not the only alternative solution of protecting the nation and to make a safer world. Instead it takes our personal privacy in the name of protection against war and terrorism. In this paper I will explain why a mass surveillance

With respect to civil liberties, consider mass surveillance of people when they are thinking, reading, and communicating with others in order to make up their minds about political and social issues. Such mass surveillance is especially dangerous because it can cause people not to experiment with new, controversial, or unusual ideas. I believe there are some reasons that freedom of expression is essential to a free society. Comparatively, freedom of expression is the foundation of self-fulfillment. The right to express one’s thought and to communicate freely with others encourages the dignity and worth of each and every member of society, and allows each individual to realize his or her full human potential. Thus, freedom of expression is an end in itself, and as such, deserves society’s greatest protection.

Likewise, Freedom of expression may bring to the control over the state authorities exercised by the society and to the maintenance of the self-controlled society, which is the demand of democracy. The definition of a self-controlled society means that it itself shall make own decisions. And the society can do this it is informed in total with the open exchange of

Interestingly, there are many views opposing Edward’s act. Edward has been accused of violating his ethics by not being loyal to a company and choosing wrong methods to leak classified documents which are of importance to national security. On the other hand, the spying activities of NSA are considered to ethical since they are important for the security of the country and hence the general public. The spying activities will help in preventing terrorist activities within and safeguard public life and property. I will agree with this view may be, if NSA had limited its activities within the geographical limits of its country, however, by conducting global spying of public and governmental data, NSA loses its ethical and moral ground for its spying activities. Even if its limited within the geographical limits still it’s not an ethical because they don’t have the people’s