Ever since the Internet has risen to popularity, a vast amount of the world subject to this advancement has lived in umbrage of their intrusive governments potentially spying on their every move. Particularly in the United States, our privacy is specifically protected by the fourth amendment of the Constitution. Though this, by law, is set in stone, the government often finds loopholes, or rather, takes blatantly illegal actions for their own benefit – So does the United States government really guard their citizens ' right to privacy, or does it do the exact opposite? No actions are ever taken without reasoning. With three branches to the government having such particular occupations, the general population tends to believe that the government
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Under this amendment, we are guaranteed privacy within our homes in which we do not feel the constraints of a capitalistic and professional environment encasing us – but little do some know that a connection to the Internet is enough to provide myriads of personal information to those who could, and who have, removed all traces of a “harmful” person 's existence from the face of the planet. Corruption of the fourth amendment is something that is relatively recent due to the fact that the Internet and other popular tracking devices have only been around for so long, so at one point the coverage of privacy by the fourth amendment was an indefinite right of the people. Now, however, there are so many stories shared and proven that “no unreasonable search or seizure” is merely an amendment, but serves more as a dismissed …show more content…
When these discontinuities are noted, the information behind them are taken and researched to find out what 's going on – and what branches out from this research are conspiracy theories. One that most prevalently sparks several theories is the fact that, since the Post-9/11 Patriot Act, the government has collected records on every phone call ever made in the United States (Leslie Cauley, 1). Because so much information is transferred from phone to phone between people, it is hard to tell exactly how much the government knows about its
Under this amendment, we are guaranteed privacy within our homes in which we do not feel the constraints of a capitalistic and professional environment encasing us – but little do some know that a connection to the Internet is enough to provide myriads of personal information to those who could, and who have, removed all traces of a “harmful” person 's existence from the face of the planet. Corruption of the fourth amendment is something that is relatively recent due to the fact that the Internet and other popular tracking devices have only been around for so long, so at one point the coverage of privacy by the fourth amendment was an indefinite right of the people. Now, however, there are so many stories shared and proven that “no unreasonable search or seizure” is merely an amendment, but serves more as a dismissed …show more content…
When these discontinuities are noted, the information behind them are taken and researched to find out what 's going on – and what branches out from this research are conspiracy theories. One that most prevalently sparks several theories is the fact that, since the Post-9/11 Patriot Act, the government has collected records on every phone call ever made in the United States (Leslie Cauley, 1). Because so much information is transferred from phone to phone between people, it is hard to tell exactly how much the government knows about its