Week 3 Theory Worksheet – Government Surveillance and the NSA
How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet – By Steven Levy, Wired Magazine, February 2014
Refer to the Wired article below in answering the following questions regarding government
surveillance, the expectation of privacy, and the NSA.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/01/how-the-us-almost-killed-the-internet/
1.
According to the Wired Magazine article what two newspapers first broke the
NSA story? What was the essence of the story they planned to break?
Specifically, what was the government accused of doing?
The Washington Post and The Guardian. The story exposed the NSA program called
Prism and the allegation that multiple internet companies has voluntarily given
access to the NSA and FBI that would allow them unprecented access to customer’s
personal data including phone calls, text messages, emails, documents, etc.
2.
Who initially leaked the story? What was the name of the government
surveillance program that he revealed?
