Question 101

Sacrificing personal details for anti-terrorism efforts

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Sacrificing personal details for anti-terrorism efforts

The homeland security department is already facing difficulties to trace the terrorists who are involved in illegal activities. The advanced technology has made it difficult to trace the terrorists because the terrorists are using different technologies for attacks. They are using the internet and other network systems to make plans for terrorist attacks. The homeland security department showed their interest that people might lose their privacy to trace the terrorists. People are scared that the privacy details are not secured but the security department makes sure that personal data will be analyzed to trace terrorism activities and it will not cause leakage of personal messages, pictures, and videos.

People should think positive in case of threats and they should not fear that their pictures and videos are going to be leaked. They must learn to sacrifice their private details to save the lives of innocent people because nothing is more important than human lives. Many innocent children, women and army men have lost their lives in terrorist attacks. People must understand that agencies have a network that monitors the internet apps which can be Facebook, WhatsApp and snapchat to trace the terrorists in a dangerous situation. They must understand that the pictures and videos are in safe hands if seen by agencies and there is nothing to worry about if your privacy details are used for anti-terrorist works.

Everyone has rights of civil liberties and anyone can have the trust issues that their personal details like emails, addresses, phone numbers, pictures, and videos will be shared publicly but there is not even one mistake made by the homeland security departments, they analyze the details but they never took the civil liberties of people. People should believe the security forces that they are not going to use it for any unlawful purposes. It is right of people to claim that their personal details and messages should not be seen by anyone but the security forces have serious issues and they are bound to check the details of every user.

Security forces have mentioned that they have access to every application and they can check the detail of every account who they think is involved in some illegal activities. Sometimes terrorist uses the details of common people and they also use their accounts to make a plan of terrorist activity so people must understand that their privacy details can help forces to stop terrorism. They should believe that their personal details will not be used for unlawful purposes. People have to sacrifice their details like the credit card numbers, phone numbers, messages, phone calls, images and videos to trace the terrorists. They must learn to sacrifice their personal details for lives of innocents.

References

Allison, P. R. (2017, August 9). Tracking terrorists online might invade your privacy. Retrieved from https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170808-tracking-terrorists-online-might-invade-your-privacy.

Read "Protecting Individual Privacy in the Struggle Against Terrorists: A Framework for Program Assessment" at NAP.edu. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.nap.edu/read/12452/chapter/3#37.