Digital Story Proposal
Surveillant Issues
Today, there is no bigger luxury to our lives than technology. How much do we know about this technology though? Do we know the possibilities that occur within technology. We have no idea and its quite frightening actually. I was unaware of this issue until it was discussed in class. I knew that there are security issues and that you could be tracked but I wasn't aware that our every movement was being tracked.
Some may say that this is a good thing. I can see where those people are coming from. It has it's perks such as finding fugitives and illegal/harmful stuff that is occurring. It can save lives and defiantly be put to some good use if used the right way. That is the question though: Is it being used the right way? Is it right for the government to be able to see everything we do or is that a violation to our amendments?
It was brought up in class that Abraham Lincoln would go through people's email, read what they were writing, and this is how he learned to read. Is this any different than what our government is doing know with security issues. In a way, I think it is. I think that him doing that did not deal a great deal of harm to anyone and probably gave him some advantages and is why he is one of the most liked presidents. I think that the surveillant issues now are a little excessive and that something has to be done on them. A bill was vetoed about the strickening of this issue. Obviously people don't think that this is that great of an issue if it got vetoed.
The crazy thing is that we thought that we were the only country in the world that was being watched this closely by our government. It turns out we were wrong. Snowden claims that New Zealand is under close surveillance as well. Although New Zealand government denies these claims. It just makes you wonder, how much does the government do that we have no idea of?
The government also claims that they are doing this to keep tabs on terrorism after 9/11. However, in the past seven years, there has only been one case that that they have realized before it even happened. The government was aware of the Tsarnaev brothers from the Boston Bombing but didn't keep close eyes on them.
In this article, Snowden talks about how New Zealand is also under strict surveillance and that there every move is being watched as well. The New Zealand government since has denied these claims but Snowden tells the populous that the New Zealand government is lying just like the US government did. This article was uploaded in September 2014 so it is fairly recent.
http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/10/20/edward-snowden-and-lawrence-lessig
In this article, Snowden's main point is that the government says that they are doing this to protect us and to keep terrorism down, but in the past seven years, only one call has led to an actual terroristic threat. Snowden claims that it is impossible to be able to catch this guy because "hay is continually being dumped" on these people.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/15/un-investigator-report-condemns-mass-surveillance/
This article tells about how the UN is taking matters into its own hands and it has said that this is illegal to do. Article 17 in the covenant states that individuals are allowed to post stuff for other individuals without state interference. It also states that these messages will be read by the intended recipients only which we now understand is not occurring.
The crazy thing is that we thought that we were the only country in the world that was being watched this closely by our government. It turns out we were wrong. Snowden claims that New Zealand is under close surveillance as well. Although New Zealand government denies these claims. It just makes you wonder, how much does the government do that we have no idea of?
The government also claims that they are doing this to keep tabs on terrorism after 9/11. However, in the past seven years, there has only been one case that that they have realized before it even happened. The government was aware of the Tsarnaev brothers from the Boston Bombing but didn't keep close eyes on them.
Annotated Bibliography
http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-edward-snowden-new-zealand-mass-surveillance-20140915-story.htmlIn this article, Snowden talks about how New Zealand is also under strict surveillance and that there every move is being watched as well. The New Zealand government since has denied these claims but Snowden tells the populous that the New Zealand government is lying just like the US government did. This article was uploaded in September 2014 so it is fairly recent.
http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/10/20/edward-snowden-and-lawrence-lessig
In this article, Snowden's main point is that the government says that they are doing this to protect us and to keep terrorism down, but in the past seven years, only one call has led to an actual terroristic threat. Snowden claims that it is impossible to be able to catch this guy because "hay is continually being dumped" on these people.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/15/un-investigator-report-condemns-mass-surveillance/
This article tells about how the UN is taking matters into its own hands and it has said that this is illegal to do. Article 17 in the covenant states that individuals are allowed to post stuff for other individuals without state interference. It also states that these messages will be read by the intended recipients only which we now understand is not occurring.
