The Pros And Cons Of Domestic Surveillance

Take a second to think about that fleeting feeling of being watched. Every second of every minute of every day spent on technology is being recorded and scrutinized, so why is it that the feeling so fleeting? The National Security Agency, or NSA, had such a promising name, but they ultimately slandered and disgraced it with their horrendous violations of privacy. Action must be taken in an effort to abolish the unforgivable acts of domestic surveillance performed every single day by the NSA. Domestic surveillance, seems like it would only distress the people right? The technology companies of America suffer from the domestic surveillance conducted as well as the people. Companies such as Apple and Microsoft are forced to create back doors into American hardware for the NSA (“Domestic Surveillance” 4). If they were not required to produce these back doors, then American technology companies would be able to build many things in a shorter amount of time. These back doors also cause foreign firms to be very weary of American-made hardware, hurting the American economy in the process. Not only are the companies of the Unites States suffering
There has been significantly less terrorist activity in America since domestic surveillance has started, but how much does that prove? Evidence has been found that often the NSA has information on terrorist plots and disregards it without a thought, such as in the case of the Boston Marathon bombing and on Charlie Hebdo in Paris (“Domestic Surveillance” 4). The NSA is a little kid, spying around a corner and never uttering a word. The abomination that domestic surveillance is should have never even been thought of, much less executed every single day. Go home and demand to have privacy, demand for the Fourth Amendment to be respected again, demand for this madness to stop, and never settle for less. “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” (Orwell