DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.

 

 

 Thesis

 

       While online privacy is part of our constitutional rights, national security and protecting our country against terrorism necessitate involvement of electronic surveillance legalized by bills that have jeopardized our privacy.  On the one hand, it means that intelligence agencies will be better able to arrest terrorists and foil their plans; but these acts also mean we now have less privacy on the Net. Therefore, it is mandatory to bridge the gap between personal online privacy and national security in our everyday online practices, and it may be necessary to amend these online privacy bills to protect our constitutional rights. 

 

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Conclusion

 

       While disagreements continue on the reintroduction of certain privacy and security bills, the public’s information is continuously being collected under executive orders. However, intelligence agencies have to follow current legislations before they gain access to the public’s data. Nonetheless, the information doesn’t reach these departments on a timely matter in order to avoid future cyber attacks against the country; this has been proven by the most recent cyberattacks against an American corporation, where a wealth of identifiable information has been leaked. Thus, the current awaiting privacy and security amendment bills have to strike a balance between privacy and national security. Thus far, certain bills tend to support one side of the coin, while others lean more on the opposite side; these existing legislative differences are equally putting the public’s privacy and national security at risk.

 

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       The most critical point that derived from my research is found within the legislative regulations that exist between privacy and national security. General Alexander finds these faults within the malfunctioning collaboration between the public, and the private sector as it was previously stated in the research. This lack of inadequate data sharing pace between government agencies and corporations will not only cause future national security tragedies, but it will also put the public’s identifiable information at a high risk. A recent occurring calamity from the existing alliance of the public and private sector was previously mentioned in the research, and it is currently highly discussed in the news as one of the largest cyber attack against the nation. Alas, the current administration took a long reminiscing period to announce this incidence as a form of cyber terrorism against the nation; this lack of response shown from the public and the private sector will be catastrophic for the future of the country’s security and the public’s privacy. 

 

       Despite the current threat on national security and the public's data, results from the survey show that a higher percentage of individuals prefer to have their information protected by Internet service corporations; almost half of those participants from the survey favor the protection of their privacy instead of having the private sector provide information for the public sector for the sake of national security. These results in return could be the cause for another cyber attack that would otherwise be unavoidable if an alliance is not built through the balancing of some of the differences within the current legislation. 

 

DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.