Overview
The Executive Branch and NSA have recently been under fire for collecting phone and email records on hundreds of millions of Americans - sans terrorist activity or probable cause or warrants/subpoenas. Do you believe this activity to be ethical/unethical? Should the government be doing this? Does this violate the Patriot Act or FISA or the Fourth Amendment?
http://eppc.org/publications/the-essential-cia/ https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/studies-in-intel... https://www.wired.com/2012/03/ff-nsadatacenter/ https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying