Does mass surveillance really protect us from crime / terrorism?

Essay

TOPIC : Does mass surveillance really protect us from crime / terrorism?
As a part of reflective essay, I have tried to reflect upon the major discussion in the
debate which focused upon the effectiveness of mass surveillance in contemporary environment.
sMass surveillance involves the practices of CCTV monitoring, computer hacking, wire tapping
and more, for protect people from crime. It is considered as the fundamental threat to rights of
human that violates the privacy (Maras and Wandt, 2019). Concerning on this topic, provide a
meaningful analysis for government to manage national security issues like terrorism, network
attack on infrastructure, weapons proliferation and more. In the prevention and investigation of
terrorism acts as well as potential terrorists conspiracies, public authorities have shown greater
interests to ensure that entire information related to prosecution of serious crime must be timely
provided (Miller, 2019) . In this reflective article I have tried to note down the major discussions
during the debate primarily focusing on mass surveillance violating human rights. I have
presented necessary arguments that will be helpful in determining the effectiveness to evaluate if
this surveillance really protect human from criminal activities like terrorism.
Through numerous public incidents, I have been able to identify that mass surveillance is
carried out not only by government but also done by agencies on the behalf of public authorities.
The debates have been helpful in identifying that spying activities are carried out on a particular
group or entire population. Therefore, mostly people do not participate in such activities (Matos,
2019). Privacy in my aspect is one of the crucial thing which a person deserves. It is mainly
considered when any practice related to metadeta, where collected data provides less protection
to human, according to right to privacy. Therefore, metadeta includes a unique challenge for
public authorities that mainly work for protecting national security against terrorism and other
criminal activities, which harm both people and government infrastructure. Other than this,
mostly people belong to civil society advocates metadeta refers to the protection of the right to
privacy, as per basis of 'mosaic theory'. This theory defines as a method of collecting data, which
provides little piece of information but can be used to conduct in-depth analysis about personal
activities of an individual by combining multiple information which is contained in metadata
(Thorsen, 2019). Considering the example, to determine the ethnicity as well as relationship
status, computer scientists can spy information from location of that mobile telephone of that
person. Along with this, social media activities of a person on Facebook and other platform, also
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