¶
Other sectors across the economy that saw increases were
in company and enterprise management, which went up by 5.8 percent.
Manufacturing
of non-durable
goods also
went up, with an increase of 5.3 percent
.
Credibility Advantage
1AC
The Freedom act doesn’t go far enough to curtail programs – hardly affected the
NSA and there’s still confusion as to whether or not it’s being implemented
Williams
Pelegrin 15
, writer for Digital Trends, 6/30/15, “Court gives the NSA
permission to continue phone metadata collection for now,”
The Freedom Act
amended Section 215 to
require the government to define a “specific selection term,”
such as a phone number,
to access the phone companies’ records
.
The law also forbids the collection of “all call detail
records” held by phone companies.
All of
this was done in response to a ruling by the
United States Court of Appeals for the
Second Circuit
,
which stated that Section 215 could not be interpreted as allowing any kind of bulk collection.
However, the
Freedom
Act did
not include any language to address the ruling, so it remained unclear whether the data collection was legal
or not.
Then, in late June,
Judge
Michael W.
Mosman stated that the program could resume for the remaining 180 days
granted by the Freedom Act and argued that the Second Circuit was wrong
in saying that the program was
not authorized to collect that data.
“
Second Circuit rulings are not binding on the FISC and this court respectfully disagrees with that court’s
analysis, especially in view of the intervening enactment of the U.S.A. Freedom Act
,” wrote Judge Mosman in
his 26-page decision.
In response, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) stated that it will ask the Second Circuit Court —
which initially ruled against the NSA program — to issue a temporary injunction to prevent the resumption
of the program. Of course,
even if the NSA is forced to stop metadata collection, that doesn’t mean all of its
programs will be gone for good
.
Even the Freedom Act
, which Senator Ron Wyden (D-Or.) hailed as “the most significant victory for Americans’ privacy rights
in more than a decade,”
still includes questionable provisions, such as the “roving wiretap” and “lone wolf
.”
These provisions allow
local and federal
law enforcement to track and tap an individual’s activities and
devices, even if there aren’t proven links between the user and any known terrorist organizations
.
NSA surveillance undermines overall smart power and justifies authoritarian
control---smart power is the best and only way to evaluate security implications of
surveillance
Eileen
Donahoe 14
, former U.S. ambassador to the UNHRC, 3/6/14, “Why the NSA
undermines national security,” -
surveillance-undermines-national-security/
Questions about the legitimacy and efficacy of the mass-surveillance techniques used by the National Security Agency continue to
swirl around the globe.
