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Technology Civil Rights
Can Technology be a Civil Rights Issue?
The united states government gives us civil rights that stand for people’s social freedom and equality to do anything we desire to do in our cell phones and social media because civil rights are designed to provide us with privacy and social freedom. Although, we are told we have civil rights the government has been spying on us violating our rights. Briefly summarize the three ways in which you will defend your thesis. The National Security Agency have been unlawfully monitoring us without our consent since 2001. Cell phone encryption might also be a great way to prevent unauthorized access as it coverts your information into codes. The government should be allowed to spy on people but only if they
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According to apple consumers are their priority as they state,” When you pay for groceries, message a friend, track a workout, or share a photo, you shouldn’t have to worry about your information falling into the wrong hands. The personal data on your devices should be protected and never shared without your permission. That’s why we build strong, innovative safeguards into the things we make.” (Apple, 2017) Apple has protected its users by encrypting user’s data and by following our civil rights. Cristopher Soghoian mentioned in a ted talk presentation he gave that,” if the police seize an iPhone and it has a password, they'll have a difficult time getting any data from it, if they can do it at all. In contrast, the security of Android just really isn't as good. Android phones, or at least most of the Android phones that have been sold to consumers, do not encrypt data stored on the device by default, and the built-in text messaging app in Android does not use encryption. So, if the police seize an Android phone, chances are, they'll be able to get all the data they want from that device.” (Soghoian, 2017) and that is true android users need to set up an encryption app or enable it on their devices because someone other than the government may hack onto your phone and steal your …show more content…
The government wants to prevent terrorism but by collecting our data is violating our rights and not telling us the people. “The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has said that the bulk collection of phone records is illegal, saying it is “an unprecedented contraction of the privacy expectations of all Americans.” (Listenwise 2015) The government doesn’t care that its violating our rights because they are trying to catch terrorism by considering our data. If the government considers catching terrorist through looking in our data, why hasn’t there been any cases where they catch terrorist because of considering his data as in my opinion a terrorist up to no good in the united states would be using different phones to not get

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