The Importance Of Intellectual Privacy

What if I told you, that your liberties under the constitution of the united states are under threat by the very government that encompasses you in everyday life. I believe we should not change how we view the fourth amendment in accordance to the rise in terrorism, because trying to find terrorist activities whilst monitoring millions of other people is not only a violation to our rights, but it is also dangerously inefficient. As a result of mass government surveillance, there has been discrimination against individuals who were wrongfully accused of terrorism. Intellectual privacy is absolutely crucial for the advancement of ideas and inventions, but when government interferes, these ideas are no longer expressed due to the possibility of there being no intellectual privacy. …show more content…
According to Colonel Allen B. West in his "Individual Freedom versus Security: An Unintended Casualty of the Battlefield" article, he compares it to trying to find a needle in a haystack, as opposed to the more efficient option of focusing more on a small stack of needles that are likely to be the offender or offenders. This is one of the best arguments against mass NSA surveillance, not only because this option protects an individual 's fourth amendment rights, but because it guarantees the impartiality of more citizens by only monitoring only those who have specific patterns and characteristics that are related to terrorist