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Listening to The Enemy
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Listening to The Enemy
The issue on fighting terrorism using data collection strategies one that is associated with mixed feeling from the public. Since the act of terror of 9/11, the government has been all over the place trying to collect as much information as they can on the enemy before they strike (Masi, 2015). This is a front that is largely skewed and one that has left the government on the defensive constantly, trying to keep up with the enemy without success. One of the most recent twist of the government’s misguided attempts at gaining access to information on the communication strategies of the terror networks was brown over in the tuff war between Apple and the FBI.
As Alessandria Masi states in the article ‘NSA Phone-Data Collection May Be Illegal, But Terrorists Stopped Using Phones Long Ago’, is a misguided approach at a terminal problem that keeps changing in tactics (Masi, 2015). The terrorists no longer use phones to communicate as they understand that they are being tapped into. Yet the government keeps on insisting that they need to tap into the citizens’ phone calls and emails to get to the terrorists before they attack again (Masi, 2015). This is a violation of the Patriot Act and a complete waste of resources that only leaves curious citizens, wondering wha
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