Should Officials Be Able To Monitor Social Networking Sites

Should officials be able to use the information from social networking sites without permission? According to many people, officials should be able to check a person’s belongings in order to keep the community safe. Safety is not as important as privacy. Officials should not be able to use information they obtained from private devices or social networking sites in order to protect the community.

There are many reasons why officials should not be able to monitor students’ online activity. For example, monitoring someone else's online activity and phone snooping is an invasion of privacy and a violation of freedom of speech. Gregory Diaz, a criminal suspect, agrees, saying, “Phone snooping violated the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.” No one should be able to monitor someone’s online activity without their permission. Even if someone doesn’t trust or accuses someone else with something, it still doesn’t make it right. In Addition, an educator's job is to teach, not monitor students. Maria Shepard, a teacher at Princeton Day School in …show more content…
If a student is bothering another student, the school could address the problem before the dispute gets physical. Also, allowing officers to “open and examine what they find” on an arrested person without a warrant can help solve dangerous crimes. However, looking through a person’s phone or social networking sites can be an invasion of privacy. It can not only invade a person’s privacy, but someone else’s also if that someone has information about someone else on their phone or social network site. “People could have....pictures in there, like of their girlfriends, that they don’t want somebody else to see, and it would be an invasion of privacy not only for them, but the other person also,” California resident Valinten Perez told