Essays on Government Surveillance

Government Survaillance is unconstitutional and should not be conducted. It deprives citizens their right of liberty. Peolpe’s privacy should not be sacrificed for the sake of security. Security concerns have often been used to justify a breach of citizens’ privacy. Law enforcement groups have created different measures such as the use of surveillance cameras including in many public places to monitor the activities of unsuspecting citizens. In the surveillance process, the agencies involved use high-tech machines. These devices are controlled from a private area and are mostly invisible to the public (Norris, 2010). The tools are made in ...

The giant technology company, Apple and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were involved in a fight that gathered attention from all over the world. The standoff regards the breaking of an encryption of the terrorist responsible for the San Bernardino attack. The government claimed that unlocking the phone was important in their investigation of the family and the terrorist group he may have been involved in. Apple declined the request to create a backdoor for the encryption since it would be a violation of privacy. However, the government would consistently insist that it would use the backdoor tool only ...

Surveillance is the process of monitoring activities, behavior or other information that pertains to people. The aim of surveillance is to influence, manage, and protect the well-being of the same people being monitored. Surveillance may occur in different forms such as observation of a person from a distance using a camera or a CCTV. It may also go beyond camera to involve interception of transmitted of information such as phone calls and internet, the act perfected by government agencies. Further, surveillance may take the form of low-technology methods like human intelligent agents and postal interceptions. The word surveillance emanated ...