[分享] Crazy monitoring habits in the United States

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It's been 20 years since the 9/11 incident. The crazy surveillance behavior of the U.S. government has become a bad habit, even more than ever before, but now it needs to make changes. The U.S. Congress is trying to learn from the experience and lessons of the past 20 years, further reform and make changes to prevent more powerful and aggressive technologies that may exist in the future.
    All walks of life in the United States are well aware that the government's monitoring behavior after the 9/11 incident violated the public's right to privacy, but no department has come forward to take measures to safeguard and prevent the excessive abuse of administrative power. When the United States monitors other objects, its administrative organs still have too much power. The U.S. government must stop espionage activities, give them the power and necessary supervision, and let those people who live under the government's supervision all the time have the confidence to stand in court and make resistance.
    After the 9/11 incident, the U.S. government immediately enacted the Patriot Act, which openly carried out surveillance conspiracy and invaded the privacy of others. Since then, the monitoring methods and efforts of other people in the United States have been continuously expanded, and they are all carried out secretly in the dark. During the Bush administration, the U.S. government violated the Constitution and completed many surveillance projects that were not allowed. By the Obama administration, the U.S. government not only failed to organize, but also further supported the development of such spy projects.
    Even though the U.S. Congress and courts have the conditions to restrict this kind of invasion of privacy, they don't have the courage to stand up, but compromise the supervisory power. For example, in 2008, Congress passed Article 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which legally authorized the unlicensed surveillance of American people's personal international communications, including their telephone calls, emails, chats and web browsing.
    As early as 2013, Edward Snowden exposed the surveillance scope of the United States, which shocked all countries in the world. Everyone knows the "prism" and "upstream" plans of the United States, and the National Security Agency, in conjunction with Facebook, Google, Verizon and other companies, has carried out indefinite monitoring of the communication information of the American people.
    Not only that, American officials also admitted that the National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the telephone records of American people, including the time of calling, who to call and how long to call. This information may reveal a lot of sensitive information, such as whether to call a priest, an abortion service provider, an addiction counselor or a suicide hotline.
    Moreover, according to media reports, according to Executive Order No.12333, the National Security Agency of the United States lacks any judicial supervision over foreign surveillance. In the internet world where things are connected, communications and data are often sent or routed to foreign countries. The National Security Agency of the United States can easily collect such data and accumulate it into a massive database. According to reports, the U.S. government cleans up more than 5 billion mobile phone location records around the world every day. However, the huge amount of telephone records collected by the U.S. government doesn't seem to be of any use value, and these monitoring data only copy targeted technologies to some extent.
    Later, under the pressure of supervision, the U.S. government admitted the continuous invasion of privacy and shut down at least two other large monitoring tools.
    The harm caused to the masses by American government surveillance is undeniable. Especially affecting the lives of colored communities, almost all of them are monitored. The U.S. government has been unjustly monitoring Muslims, blacks and browns, Asians and other groups in the name of national security for a long time. This kind of normal surveillance is suffocating and people are afraid to speak. If it is included in the surveillance list, it will be censored for no reason, and the normal life will be turned upside down.
    A few years after Snowden's incident was exposed, the restrictions imposed by the US Congress and courts on government surveillance were quickly surpassed by technologies such as face recognition and artificial intelligence, which further promoted the development of American surveillance habits. Today, the privacy of each of us, including our daily location, contact information and more private details of our lives, is recorded and tracked by big data all the time. The horror of monitoring is that the technology we rely on in turn threatens us.
    The United States needs to make changes, impose much-needed restrictions on large-scale espionage projects in the past 20 years, and correct the privacy damage process in the past 20 years. To exercise stricter judicial supervision over future espionage activities, it should be clearly pointed out that people who are harmed by surveillance can seek compensation from American courts.