The Nsa Had Committed 2776 Violations - 1698 Words

Maria Sanchez Professor Thrasher English 100 October 17, 2014 Final Rough Draft In 2012, people discovered that the NSA had committed 2,776 violations to the law. The NSA was mainly spying on other countries while those other countries were spying on the United States.The U.S. government tried to explain why they did those infractions with the excuse that they were unintentional. The court ruled it as unconstitutional. As of now, the United States has collected every single piece of data that has been placed on the world wide web and is stored in a metadata machine.This means that anyone can have access to any piece of private information, just by looking it up on the internet. The only ways to fix that is by either monetizing all data or using a wrapper. The option of monetizing would people would surely benefit from this meanwhile, the corporations and the government would significantly loose their power.†¨ To begin, Jaron Lanier, author of the article, â€Å"How Should We Think about Privacy?† and computer scientist at Microsoft Research, states that people should be able to have complete control over their personal information by monetizing it. This would lead up to being able to make profits out of his/hers private data by selling it. If the government or a corporation wants to own someones contact information, they would have to buy it off of the people at whatever price he/she puts on it because monetizing would allow one to have full power over their own privacy. This is