Does hacking into personal technology break your 4th amendment right? The government has been under fire recently for believing that they should be allowed access to our computers and if so should we be worried?
Homeland Security is of the one of the many agencies created after 9/11 to protect the United States along with many bills, acts, and laws. The common misconception is that anyone in our government can hack the computers we own but that is not true. Homeland Security is most well known for increased measures after 9/11 but that does not include hacking. Homeland is in charge of Border Patrol, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Secret Service, Coast Guard, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and many more. …show more content…
We need to monitor what is going on not only in the United States but worldwide and standing in the way is social media. Yes social media is completely different now than it was it was back in the early 2000’s but at that time social media had much less of a reach to the international community. Facebook did not start until February of 2004, Twitter did not start until March 2006, and Youtube started back in February of 2005.
So many of these online accounts are not watched and have allowed terrorists access to information that gives them the ability to talk to anyone in the world at any time. It is not cyber terrorism but it definitely is a format in which people have an opportunity to exchange information that Homeland Security, CIA, NSA, or FBI is not allowed to access until