Ethics in Domestic Surviellance
Ethics in Domestic Surveillance SOC 120 Introduction Ethics and Social Responsibility Instructor: Dr. David Jung March 31, 2014
If there is an issue that needs more attention it is the practice of governmental domestic surveillance. This would be the practice of the National Security Agency also known as the NSA for using strategies that are clearly breaking each citizen's civil rights. With the advancement of technology the National Security Agency has enlarged the amount of scrutiny that they have done in order to spy on the behaviors of all people. Our freedom does not exist, and all phone conversations, text messages and emails sent are subject to being checked by the National Security Agency. Therefore, when someone says that the only thing we can do about surveillance technologies is to get use to them. That is a lot to consume in the land of the free. The progress of surveillance technology has come so far that it is almost impossible to contain it. Within a much bigger situation it is because we rely on it in the first place. This dependency is stimulated by our own use of surveillance technologies, tracking and our unhealthy want to see ourselves and others. The needs for these surveillance technologies in the commercial and governmental categories are unappeasable. The commercial side can be anything from security for your home to selling merchandise on the internet. The impulse for more data about customers is what drives businesses to hunt out a more direct way of targeting their consumers in order to sell more products. This could be something as easy and direct as suggestions from websites for example: Netflix or Amazon. Grocery stores use loyalty or club cards in order to give
If there is an issue that needs more attention it is the practice of governmental domestic surveillance. This would be the practice of the National Security Agency also known as the NSA for using strategies that are clearly breaking each citizen's civil rights. With the advancement of technology the National Security Agency has enlarged the amount of scrutiny that they have done in order to spy on the behaviors of all people. Our freedom does not exist, and all phone conversations, text messages and emails sent are subject to being checked by the National Security Agency. Therefore, when someone says that the only thing we can do about surveillance technologies is to get use to them. That is a lot to consume in the land of the free. The progress of surveillance technology has come so far that it is almost impossible to contain it. Within a much bigger situation it is because we rely on it in the first place. This dependency is stimulated by our own use of surveillance technologies, tracking and our unhealthy want to see ourselves and others. The needs for these surveillance technologies in the commercial and governmental categories are unappeasable. The commercial side can be anything from security for your home to selling merchandise on the internet. The impulse for more data about customers is what drives businesses to hunt out a more direct way of targeting their consumers in order to sell more products. This could be something as easy and direct as suggestions from websites for example: Netflix or Amazon. Grocery stores use loyalty or club cards in order to give
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