9/11 Improvements

When the shocking attack on 9/11 occurred civilians was frightened and scared from the attack. From that led the USA Patriot Act was passed on October 26,2001 to keep everyone safe and ease the fear that the american people had from the attack. As a result of 9/11, there has been many improvements of surveillance for the purpose of helping civilians safe. There are many improvements of surveillance to keep civilians safe. As stated the USA Patriot Act passed on October 6, 2001 was to ease the fear for american people. The USA PAtriot Act allowed federal government agencies to listen to telephone conversations at anytime and record what one may say if they suspect a terrorist or anyone talking to a terrorist so agencies and tap the phone. Alongside the phone tapping the patriot act lets the government track review emails at any time and they pay attention to who that person email. Now that the patriot act surveillance was added, major search engine providers such as google and microsoft have turned over users records to …show more content…
A man named Timothy Schneider who previously worked at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport stated things that showed how surveillance was a huge impact after the attack. “Before the 9/11 attack people could enter with any foods and drinks. When I worked there i was the man to search bags and set people flights so they could get on the plane. There was still x-rays and enter through the detection. However, after the attack it was much more different. Besides me checking the bags, a search base happend and then tsa came.there were actual security guards doing it to find someone suspicious of anything that may harm another person besides employees for everyone safety”. This shows how it was a difference before and after 9/11 and how surveillance was improved by telling that security guards was the one checking others bags and watching people carefully who looked