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  • Essay / NSA: They're Watching - 584

    As of June 30, 2012, there were more than two million Internet users worldwide ("Global Internet User Usage Statistics and World Population Statistics") . The National Security Agency (NSA) has been monitoring American citizens since 2005 (“EFF NSA Spying | Electronic Frontier Foundation”). They are supposed to only hunt down suspects and dangerous people, but instead delve deeper into the lives of the innocent. Although their intentions are morally correct, the NSA endangers private information from the Internet and therefore must be banned to protect the people of the United States. From Facebook to Twitter, you can find out what's happening in the world and what's happening around the world. is “trendy”. Is it okay to let companies like Google keep internet browsing history and use it to attract users? Some may not see a problem with this, but what if Google wasn't the only one with this information? Well, that's precisely what's happening. Google and 140 other companies already track users to tailor ads to their users' recent history or videos they've watched....