‘Americans must defuse spy programs’

According to a new Pew Research Poll, only 27 percent of Americans admit they are following the recent news concerning the largest US spy organization, the National Security Agency (NSA), which is conducting massive surveillance of electronic communications on tens of millions of US citizens and foreigners.

“The NSA scandal I think affects people in my generation a lot in terms of how we see it just because it gives us all an awareness of just how much data we’re actually putting online, you know, pictures and information about ourselves in Facebook or other social networks and the idea that that might somehow be relevant to the government I think is scary to a lot of people my age,” said a civil liberties activist.


The poll further revealed that 62 percent of Americans accept the federal government’s intrusion of their personal privacy in order to investigate possible terrorist threats, while only 34 percent said the government may not intrude on their personal privacy under any circumstance including the investigation of possible terrorist threats.

Civil liberties groups have urged the American public to further educate themselves about the government’s spy scheme in a bid to safeguard their rights to privacy.

This is while the American Civil Liberties Union and others have filed lawsuits against the administration of President Barack Obama as well as the NSA for violating the Constitution notably the fourth amendment, over the government’s surveillance scheme.

“The FISA court is overseeing this information and ensuring that it’s carried out in a just way, except for there’s no real precedent in a constitutional law for a court that’s outside of normal jurisdiction and normal, basically, visibility – you know, the ability for the public to keep that court in check and to see its proceedings,” an activist said.

Under a program code named PRISM, the NSA and the FBI are monitoring the central servers of nine leading US Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs.

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