By: Jessica Pinkerton

Role: Setting and Vocabulary Builder

The (UK) Guardian published a
previously secret court order
authorizing dragnet surveillance
of millions of Americans

In The Giver, the citizens are
aware they are being watched as
well, but it doesnt seem to cross
their minds. That is until the
speakers come on, or someone
reminds another that they need
to be polite, and they are
breaking one of the many strict
rules that are in place.
Information found in Source #1 and The Giver.
a rubber stamp allowing any manner of
dragnet violations impacting law-abiding
Americans and our fundamental rights.

In The Giver, people living in the community
have strict rules they need to follow, like having
to share their dreams every night, which are
basically the laws. If they break one of these
rules, a speaker comes on and reminds them,
indirectly, not to do so again.
Information found in Source #1 and The Giver.
On the site-
That the NSA and GCHQ should share such
information ought to be a cause of comfort
rather than concern.
They dont gather information for the sake of
it- they do it to keep us safer.

In the book-
I cant even imagine it. We really have to
protect people from wrong choices.
Its safer.
Yes, Jonas agreed. Much safer.
(One of the first memories Jonas
received was of snow)
Information found in Source #2 and The Giver.
President Obama argued that
government interception is
subject to tight controls,
adding: You cant have 100
per cent security, and also
have 100 per cent privacy and
zero inconvenience.

In The Giver there are
cameras watching them, just
like there are cameras
watching us. This takes away
their freedom.
Information found in Source #2 and The Giver.
In order to keep on top of what ill-wishers were
doing, interception had to be widened to include data
trawling
It is partly through this means that networks are
identified- you discover with whom a suspected
terrorist is working. But you cant get that
information without trawling the data of millions of
innocent people, because that is where it is hidden.

That is what they were taught to do. The speaker
comes on to remind people of things they shouldnt
do.
Information found in Source #2 and The Giver.
The Patriot Act gives government and by
extension local police departments huge new
powers.
The Patriot Act allows the National Security
Agency to spy on American citizens, but the NSA
is supposed to get a warrant.
Information found in Source #3 and The Giver.
If the amount of surveillance keeps going up to
the point the government knows enough to make
your career choices for you, like in The Giver,
soon we might have a society like the one in the
book.
Information found in The Giver.
While the NSA is one of the
biggest and most effective
surveillance entities, they
arent alone. Every country is
spying on its enemies, its
allies, and its own people.

We can assume that there are
other places in the story, since
Lily said she was mad at
someone from a different
community. In the world they
live in, it appears that every
place is watching its people.
This shows there are other places in
the world that watch the citizens of
the country.
Information found in Source #4 and The Giver.
I will often ask if it is possible to put risk-based
boundaries around the anti-terror investment and
other societal compromises necessary to conduct this
all out war.

Jonas and the Giver create a plan that will release
chaos on the community. It will hopefully make
things the way they had been a long time before the
Sameness. Jonas and the Giver had decided that Jonas
had to run away and release his memories into the
community. In a way, their Government was trying
to make sure that didnt happen by watching. They
had assigned people to keep the memories to
themselves.
Information found in Source #4 and The Giver.
And DeWine is right when he advances the
argument that never worked with your mom:
Everybodys doing it.

In The Giver, there might be other communities
that are watching and controlling the people
living in them.
Information found in Source #5 and The Giver.
Government at every level perceives a
compelling interest in prying into as many of our
affairs as it can. Its done for our own good, of
course.
the more it knows about us, the better it can
protect us.
The better its insights into our preferences and
proclivities, the better it can anticipate when
were veering out of bounds and intervene.


Information found in Source #5 and The Giver.
Through FISA, Congress sought to provide judicial
and congressional oversight of foreign intelligence
surveillance activities while maintaining the secrecy
necessary to effectively monitor national security.
FISA also established the United States Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), a special US
Federal court that holds non public sessions to
consider issuing search warrants under FISA.
FISA Court
Information found in Source #6 and The Giver.
But that comes at a cost in both privacy and
freedom- a cost that grows with every
advancement in technology.

At the time this story takes place, there is no
longer any cell phones or computers that we
know of. They had gotten so advanced, they
didnt need that stuff anymore, it seems, or they
thought it was bad.
Information found in Source #6 and The Giver.
Source #1
Buttar, Shahid. "FBI and NSA Spying Revealed: Uncle Sam is Watching You, and
Both Congress and the Courts Are Complicit." TruthOut. N.p., 7 June 2013.
Web. 23 Jan. 2014. <http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/
16838-fbi-nsa-spying-revealed-uncle-sam-is-watching-you-and-both-congress-and-the
-courts-are-complicit>.

Source #2
Judd, Alan. "Yes Big Brother is watching you. But for a good reason." The
Telegraph. N.p., 8 June 2013. Web. 24 Jan. 2014.
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10167489/
Yes-Big-Brother-is-watching-you.-But-for-a-good-reason.html>.

Source #3
DeRusha, Jason. "Good Question: How Much Is The Gov't Watching Us?" CBS
Minnesota. N.p., 23 Sept. 2011. Web. 26 Jan. 2014.
<http://minnesota.cbs.local.com/2011/09/23/
good-question-how-much-is-the-government-watching-us/>.

Source #4
Reacis, Jim. "Weighing Costs Vs. Benefits of NSA Surveillance."
InformationWeek. N.p., 3 Dec. 2013. Web. 26 Jan. 2014.
<http://www.informationweek.com/security/cloud-security/
weighing-costs-vs-benefits-of-nsa-surveillance-/d/d-id/1112819>.

Source #5
O'Brien, Kevin. "Watching Government Watching Us-- for our own Good: Kevin
O'Brien." Cleveland.com. N.p., 27 Aug. 2013. Web. 26 Jan. 2014.
<http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2013/08/
watching_government_watching_u.html>.

Source #6
"The Foreign Intellegance Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA)." Justice Information
Sharing. DHS/Office for Civil Rights and Civil Libertie and the DHS/
Privacy Office, 19 Sept. 2013. Web. 26 Jan. 2014. <https://it.ojp.gov/
default.aspx?area=privacy&page=1286>.