Ethics in Domestic Surveillance

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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 discounts in order to track peoples or households purchases. All of these purchases are then matched up with or to someone's name and address. Then this knowledge can be cross checked with other records that can form an image of a person. This information can be sold or scoured and reconstructed, it has even given a tool to be recycled for political means. The political side of customer purchases enable for precise attack by political ...

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about wire-tapping, so that domestic surveillance can be done in order to catch people doing things that they should not be doing. There is no definite answer for whether the National Security Agencies wire-tapping program comes within the inherent powers in order to carry out these wire-taps.
" Several legal experts said that by redefining the meaning of "electronic surveillance," the new law narrows the types of communications covered in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA, by indirectly giving the government the power to use intelligence collection methods far beyond wiretapping that previously required court approval if conducted inside the United ...

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