During Class
- DOL 7 (Grammar)
- Sentence 1: 1 subject
- Independent Clause - Simple Sentence
- Sentence 2: 1 subject
- Independent Clause - Simple Sentence
- Guest Speaker: Mr. Eschew
- Kids don't understand the historical significance of the government
- don't understand how the government has changed
- Changes
- People are always being filmed
- Do you value security or privacy? Which would you give up?
- September 11, 2001 they valued privacy
- September 12, they valued security
- Different generations remember different things
- freshman weren't born in the 20th century
- Generation Gap
- Technology improvements
- Patriot Act: October 26th, 2001
- 5-6 weeks after 9/11
- Rushed through Congress
- Opponents have criticized the indefinite detentions of immigrants
- Good result in stopping terrorists
- Bad Things: No privacy, people can charge innocent people
- Roving wire taps: no search warrants
- You call a terrorist, they can tap you
- They can look at who you call, and who they call, and so on
- Is this right?
- Civil Liberties
- Haven't actually caught terrorists
- NSA: National Security Agency
- Patriot Act has given them more authorization
- Edward Snowden: subcontractor who had access to what the NSA was doing
- Traitor or Hero?
- Thought that what they were doing was wrong
- Released documents saying that they can find anything on your phone
- Released it to a reporter from the Guardian
- Information
- Tapped foreign leader's phones
- AT&T, Google, Verizon; NSA has access to every text, phone call, email, searches
- Is that OK?
- No, because they wanted to be sneaky and didn't tell anyone
- Webcams: They can spy on you through the cameras with microprocessors
- They can turn the camera on whenever, and the light doesn't come on
- Hacker's do this as well
- Building a massive building in Utah to store all of the data
- Nicknamed the "Bumblebee Hive"
- One leader, the rest are drones
- Has the government gone too far?
- Where is the line?
- Telescreens (1984) : the camera on your computer
- Do you value privacy or not?
- Are you OK with other people having your information?
- Does it matter whether you are aware of it or not?
- Are you OK with carrying something that tracks you?
- Kids are OK with Apple and the government having their information
- Not OK with the school having their information
- A fact of whether you can choose it or not
- More affected by the things close to home than the people who are far away and won't do anything about it
- Could be used for a good thing
- Denmark
- Has CCTV's that monitor the population
- One of the happiest countries in the world
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