4th Amendment Right To Privacy

There is a finite line between national security and the privacy of innocent Americans in their day to day lives. The right to have privacy was provided to people when it was installed in the 4th amendment to the constitution. Although the U.S. Government has been stretching out this basic right and invading the privacy right that every American has. The government should not be allowed to freely use surveillance programs to watch over innocent people 's every move. Stated in the 4th amendment there is the right for people “to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. (Text 1.1, Lines 1-2).” What the text is saying is that, people cannot be searched randomly …show more content…
Not only are they avoiding the probable cause part, but they are rummaging through everyone 's private lives without warrants. As stated in Text 1.2, Paragraph 13, “...police often do not need to show probable cause of a crime when the want to find out details about your life that they used to find in your home. Instead, they can get your private files from corporations that store your records on their computers.” This is completely absurd in the fact that in literally is said in the constitution that the government cannot search or seize any of the peoples documents without a warrant. Although second parties may claim that, since “.. the Supreme Court and other courts have issued a series of rulings declaring that the government does not need a search warrant to obtain personal documents if you have already shared them with someone else.(Text 1.2, Paragraph 10” What is the definition of shared though? Apparently if people save a document of the computer, or post/comment something online, that statement is no longer the people 's. The company who the people gave the statement too owns it, and it is considered public information. By this standard, if innocent people show a document to their spouse, it is now considered shared, and is public information. Technically if the government wanted to show that this was the correct thing to do and shared information is …show more content…
They have created “secret programs” to help survey the citizens of the United States. When asked how many people the government was surveying, the government responded with, “it’d be against their privacy policy to inform the people of that.” The government should at least be able to inform the people it serves how many of its citizens internet traffic they go through on a day to day basis, there 's nothing secret about an approximate number. In Text 4.1, Paragraph 9 Mike Rogers said, “It is much easier for terrorists to hide from us if they understand the methods of our intelligence gathering.” But how would just supplying a number of people being surveyed change the way terrorists acted? It is completely irrational if they expect the people to believe everything that they say and never question any of it. That 's why the people should have more of a direct say in how the government. It is the way their lives are run and if they are unhappy about it, do something to change it. It was what this country was founded on. A people unhappy with the way they were run so they did whatever was necessary to achieve the way they wanted to run their own lives. Its hoped that it doesn 't cause a war, that 's not what being said, but the American people do need to stop rolling with the punches and take a stand for their own