Privacy has and always will be a significant problem in the United States. Because the constitution never actually gives citizens a right to privacy, it just merely hints at it. Some people believe that because the right to privacy is not stated anywhere in the constitution, the right should belong to citizens. The main point of the First Amendment is freedom from religion. It is often thought that that means separation from church and state but that actually isn’t part of the amendment. The First Amendment just grants freedom to worship any religion you’d like. During the American Revolution many British soldiers would stay in the houses of colonists without their consent. Not only would they live in their private property but they would
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Text messages, Facebook, emails, tweets or anything of that sort are all considered private things. The question is, should these be allowed as evidence in a court? It was recently ousted that the NSA has been listening to peoples phone calls and reading peoples text messages. This created a crazy uproar. People were very upset because they felt it went against the bill of rights and was therefore unconstitutional. The 4th amendment grants protection from unreasonable searches and seizures and many people considered reading text messages an unwarranted search. The governments’ defense to these allegations was that there are acts in place that make this legal. ECPA (Electronic Communications Privacy Act) allows the government to access internet files after they are 180 days old. CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) is another act which makes companies report any form of cyber threat they discover. It is set up so that anyone threatening over the internet will be turned into the government and although it’s meant for our safety it doesn’t give us much privacy. CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) is the final act and it makes it a federal crime to share protected information. These acts are set up to insure that we are safe on the web but it also means that the NSA is not breaking any constitutional
Text messages, Facebook, emails, tweets or anything of that sort are all considered private things. The question is, should these be allowed as evidence in a court? It was recently ousted that the NSA has been listening to peoples phone calls and reading peoples text messages. This created a crazy uproar. People were very upset because they felt it went against the bill of rights and was therefore unconstitutional. The 4th amendment grants protection from unreasonable searches and seizures and many people considered reading text messages an unwarranted search. The governments’ defense to these allegations was that there are acts in place that make this legal. ECPA (Electronic Communications Privacy Act) allows the government to access internet files after they are 180 days old. CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) is another act which makes companies report any form of cyber threat they discover. It is set up so that anyone threatening over the internet will be turned into the government and although it’s meant for our safety it doesn’t give us much privacy. CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) is the final act and it makes it a federal crime to share protected information. These acts are set up to insure that we are safe on the web but it also means that the NSA is not breaking any constitutional