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In the Washington Post, co-authors Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani, emphasized how the NSA (National Security Agency) was mostly used to track down terrorists in foreign countries. As the details of how the organization works become more specified, it occurs to me that this technology is not only used on national foes, but on our own people.
The NSA themselves have claimed they have done a few practice runs on random individuals in the United States. They can track where someone has been and where they'll be. They can follow them into secret meetings and figure out who else is involved by tracking down every other cell phone in that room. Now that the world has become more dependent on technology, it makes things so much easier for others to keep track of people. The government in this case can follow anyone they wish and not be detected at all. This is none other than an invasion of privacy.
So what's the difference between rounding up cell phone data on "international foes" versus rounding up cell phone data on citizens for practice?
ReplyDeleteI don't agree that this in invasion of privacy. I think tracking phone calls and the whereabouts of American citizens is a better use of resources than tracking users of online games like World of Warcraft or Second Life. After all, many parents track their children with the GPSs embedded in their cell phones or inform themselves of who they are texting online. You think your parents aren't doing it? Try again. The only thing they have on the NSA is that your parents' secret isn't out!
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