As technology continues to advance at the speed of light, the world as we knew it is beginning to disappear. Publicly available data replaced much of the spy tactics the CIA depended on after World War II and during the Cold War. Information that once took years to obtain through covert missions is now easily available on social media, commercial databases, or via Signals Intelligence (SIGINT). As the world becomes more technologically advanced and intelligence sources show new opportunities, the Intelligence Community (IC) is there to leverage data to gain the upper hand over the enemy and support decision makers. Technological advances have made IC what it is today, however, the path to learning the correct methods of exploitation is littered with abuse. In the 1950s and 1960s, the CIA's newest technology was a mind control drug, and Project MK-ULTRA was born. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) performed unauthorized tests on an unsuspecting public without their knowledge and severely tainted the agency's image. In 2013, the public discovered the National Security Agency's (NSA) Top Secret PRISM program that obtained the public's phone and internet records without their consent. These two programs have been separated by decades, but the similarities are undeniable. Both MK-ULTRA and PRISM have led to intelligence oversight reforms aimed at dealing with these types of operations before they occur. While the government does not always have the ability to predict how technological advances will affect the public, intelligence oversight mechanisms over the past 20 years have provided the safeguards necessary to protect the privacy of every American, provide… half of newspaper ......ists and Project Paperclip, 1945 to 1990. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Cambone, Stephen. The National Security Act of 1947: A new framework for planning national security policy. Washington DC: CSIS, 1998. Halpern, John. The pharmacology of lysergic acid diethylamide: a review. Hanover, Germany: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008. Lasby, Clarence. Paperclip Project: German Scientists and the Cold War. Scribner. February: Scriber, 1975. Lee, Martin A. Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond. Grove Press. 1985.Richelson, Jeffrey T. The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA's Science and Technology Directorate. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2001. Stratified, D. Brainwash. Saint Martin print. 2007. p 23 162,66,56.Taubman, Phillip. Examining the Archives: The CIA's "Family Jewels." Washington DC: New York Times, 2007.