The Government Goes Too Far As American citizens, we all have the right to have protection from unlawful searches/seizures and to have privacy. These rights are undoubtedly guaranteed under the 4th Amendment. With the events that took place in the DLK case, the rights of DLK, particularly those protected under the Fourth Amendment, were evidently violated when the law enforcement used heat imaging to see whether or not he was growing marijuana in his own home. According to Document A, what we expect to be private is constitutionally protected by the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. “But what he seeks to keep as private, even in an area accessible to the public may be constitutionally protected” ~ Justice Potter Stewert (Katz vs. United States).
This is a normal result if we observe the general morals nowadays Americans have and that’s exactly where the reconstruction process should begin. Therefore, the United States has to reinvent itself by knowing what’s the mistakes that have occurred in the past and how eventually correct them and hopefully America will stay the world’s respected leader without having to do police work to earn that title. Due to the historical past and present of the United States, a lot of hostility exists now against the country. Edward Hoagland, in his essay entitled “1776 and all that: America after September 11,” discusses the various dangers that could reach the country; mentions this feeling developed to try to harm any American belonging when he states “, not to mention angry Arabs flying into the World Trade Center?” (362). This feeling is shared with millions around the world and sure has its reasons.
Secretly placing a GPS on a car or monitoring a mans movement for long periods of time constitutes a government “search”, and therefore the mans constitutional rights were violated. They were also trying to determine whether movement in a private vehicle on city streets is "public" in nature. This just seems like they are trying to find justification in what they are doing and trying to make it seem like it is not an invasion of privacy. http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/23/justice/scotus-gps-tracking 8. An Erie, Pennsylvania, public indecency ordinance prohibited knowingly or intentionally appearing in public in a “state of nudity.” Pap’s, the owners of Kandyland, an Erie establishment featuring
Personal E-Mail Accounts Prohibit Corporate Tech employees and contractors from transmitting sensitive information using any personal e-mail accounts (e.g., Hotmail, Yahoo, MSN). Testing & Vulnerability Assessment Ensure that all Corporate Techs systems and networks containing sensitive or mission critical information undergo vulnerability scanning and/or penetration testing to identify security threats at least annually or when significant changes are made to the system or network. Cryptography Ensure that all information requiring protection from unauthorized disclosure is encrypted during transmission using current NIST encryption standards and Department-approved encryption products. Corporate Tech employees and contractors shall not transmit such information without using cryptographic protections. Malicious Code Protection Implement and enforce a malicious code protection program designed to minimize the risk of introducing malicious code (e.g., viruses, worms, Trojan horses) into all systems and networks.
By doing this the government is invading the citizens privacy. Not only does everyone in America have the right to privacy but every human being that is a citizen to any country in the United Nations. The NSA say that this program is strictly for finding terrorists and preventing any future terrorism attack it still bothers many people that nothing is private. The only reason that the NSA can perform these actions is because they are a government supported program. The privacy of millions of people can be violated because the government believes its right.
National security has demanded a closer guard on foreign and domestic threats by placing further investigation and laws that many say weaken the rights to privacy we Americans take for granted. The price that
Over 4400 Soldiers died in Iraq and 2000 killed in Afghanistan during a ten year war to end terrorism and the Al Qaeda network. As a result of the 9/11 attacks many Americans lost their lives that day. Islamic terrorists got into the country and hijacked four planes and crashed 3 out of 4 into their targets; both towers of The World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Fortunately they didn’t get the White House thanks to 33 brave passengers who took down the plane and the terrorists who hijacked the plane. Many Americans have lost their lives that day and none of them will be
Controversial acts were passed in an effort to control terrorism, the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act was passed by George Bush shortly after 9/11 to make it easier for the government to access personal information like; phone conversations, emails, and other private information. It also gives them the power to detain anyone who they suspect of terrorism for up to one week. The freedoms and privacy of all Americans have been curtailed because of this act. Even though most Americans are not terrorists, simply knowing that the government has these new powers and abilities to invade on their privacy is bothersome
Other laws protect journalists from revealing confidential sources, but not other information. While some state legislatures have adopted protections into state law, others such as New Hampshire and West Virginia rely on state court precedents. This inconsistency is the foremost reason why journalists desire a federal shield law. Judith Miller, a former investigative reporter for The New York Times, feels as though a federal shield law is needed because “individual journalists and individual news organizations shouldn't have to be in the situation of deciding like this, on a case-by-case basis, whether or not we're going to go to jail or violate our commitment”(Miller). Miller went to jail for 85 days after refusing to reveal her source in the Valerie Plame investigation, and as a result many can see that she is not basing her notions on hypothetical situations but through proof of testament.
This website would release their private information that citizens never even knew about. Although it allows us to know what our government is doing, he questions if this new technology will “be a form of tyranny or will it free us from tyranny?”(32) In other words, singer questions if this website will strengthen our nation and democracy. He goes on by discussing the things people keep private and how they are constantly changing. New information is continuously coming about and changing, which people need to know about. Privacy is the state or condition of being free from observation and disturbance from other people.