Intelligence and democracy : Snowden revelations and reforms
| dc.contributor.advisor | Konstantopoulos, Ioannis | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Κωνσταντόπουλος, Ιωάννης | |
| dc.contributor.author | Paraskevopoulos, Charalampos | |
| dc.contributor.author | Παρασκευόπουλος, Χαράλαμπος | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-10-31T09:31:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-10-31T09:31:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-09 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dione.lib.unipi.gr/xmlui/handle/unipi/15863 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.26267/unipi_dione/3285 | |
| dc.format.extent | 120 | el |
| dc.language.iso | en | el |
| dc.publisher | Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς | el |
| dc.rights | Αναφορά Δημιουργού-Μη Εμπορική Χρήση-Όχι Παράγωγα Έργα 3.0 Ελλάδα | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr/ | * |
| dc.title | Intelligence and democracy : Snowden revelations and reforms | el |
| dc.type | Master Thesis | el |
| dc.contributor.department | Σχολή Οικονομικών, Επιχειρηματικών και Διεθνών Σπουδών. Τμήμα Διεθνών και Ευρωπαϊκών Σπουδών | el |
| dc.description.abstractEN | In June 2013, Edward Snowden leaked secret documents that showed the U.S. government was spying on its own people. This made him a popular phenomenon. The material revealed that the NSA (National Security Agency) coerced many telecom service companies to cooperate in the acquisition of millions of U.S. people's "metadata." Data about an individual's life that is private and confidential is included in "metadata." So, if "metadata" is gathered and examined, it can paint a picture of a person's private actions, which is a breach of that person's right to privacy. Because metadata can give so much information, it is invasive and violates the 4th Amendment. Nevertheless, collecting and examining information may be an effective weapon in the war on terrorism and in defending U.S. civilians from further assaults. To effectively manage privacy concerns while achieving national security goals, the standard must be raised to probable cause delineation. These revelations exposed the NSA's massive PRISM mass surveillance data system (program) as well as evidence of covert agreements between nations exchanging intelligence information. Edward Snowden, a Hawaii-based NSA contractor, served as the originator of the leak in cooperation with two of the biggest daily newspapers in the world, "The Guardian" and "The Washington Post." After originally escaping to Hong Kong and subsequently Russia, Edward Snowden is still evading capture. The disclosures had a severe impact on US ties with other countries, such as Brazil, setting aside commercial advantages and disrupting US relations with many nations across the globe. Also, some of the large US-based IT corporations, particularly those specializing in cloud services, suffered great loss of money as a result of the “whistleblowing.” Meanwhile, before the revelations, the National Security Agency's monitoring operations, the White House, and the Department of Justice's statutory avoidance were largely unknown to the public sphere and a substantial part of Congress. After Edward Snowden's leaks to certain reporters, the dishonesty of Intelligence Community (IC) attorneys and officials, the breaking of the law, and the Executive Branch and the Justice Department's control of the FISA Court, it became clearer and clearer how much the 4th Amendment rights of US Persons (USPs) were being abused. After that, this thesis tries to show the timeline of Snowden's leaks and his reasons for them, as well as the responses to the revelations and the immediate, short-term, and long-term effects of these leaks, including the chaotic effects on US national security, such as the weakening of US ties with other countries and the exposure of US surveillance programs and techniques to terrorist groups. Second, this study looks at the reforms that were put in place and the new ideas for possible future reforms. It also looks at what these reforms mean for the government's responsibilities and duties to the American people, as well as the role that society and its institutions, which could act as a check on the security state and make it more open, played in pushing for and using more openness. So, the Edward Snowden case study will be used to look at how the government and mass surveillance and monitoring work in the democratic United States of America. In particular, the former NSA worker who got millions of top-secret and classified files from NSA computers and gave them to the press in June 2013 revealed the existence of the NSA's intelligence operations, surveillance systems, and programs, as well as the lack of oversight from the FISC and Congress. Some of these programs, like the Prism program, will be looked at in this study, along with information about how they work. After the 9/11 bombings of the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon, the American government had to rethink how to stop future terrorist attacks. The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 gave the government the power to do extra-wide surveillance to protect its public and national virtues and reaffirm its fundamental thesis in the world. But in order to protect public safety and national security, in some cases, people's rights to privacy and even their freedom may be sacrificed for the sake of greater prosperity. Last but not least, this paper gives a modern perspective on Edward Snowden and rejects the idea that he was a hero and an ethical whistleblower but a hazardous traitor who put the whole nation in an unprecedentedly perilous situation. | el |
| dc.corporate.name | New York University’s Centre for Global Affairs | el |
| dc.contributor.master | American Studies: Politics, Strategy and Economics | el |
| dc.subject.keyword | Intelligence | el |
| dc.subject.keyword | Democracy | el |
| dc.subject.keyword | Edward Snowden | el |
| dc.subject.keyword | USA | el |
| dc.subject.keyword | Surveillance | el |
| dc.date.defense | 2023-10-23 |
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