The Right To Privacy In The United States

The world has changed a lot from when the constitution was written 228 years ago. The founding fathers didn’t know of the technology we have today. The ability to collect and store what we are doing is growing every day. Governments are misusing the technology by tracking us and not telling us. Many nations of the world and the United Nations have passed laws and resolutions protecting the right to privacy to its citizens. It’s time for the United Stated to follow. Privacy should mean that no one can hear our calls or see what’s going on in our house through webcams. The government shouldn’t be able to watch us through cameras on the street lights. They also shouldn’t be able to see what we are doing on our computers. We should be able to delete a video, photo, or post from the server of any social media website. We should be able to be anonymous without any trouble. …show more content…
Information could fall into the wrong hands or it could be sold. If the information is sold we don’t know who has the information now. In addition, Facebook or Google should not be able to make money selling information contained in the blogs, messages, and videos that people post about their private lives. The stuff we put online should be ours to control. That means we should be able to take it down forever and it should be deleted from everything whenever we want. Lastly, sometimes people will want to express their thoughts and feelings anonymously without fear of getting caught. The idea of anonymous speech is older than the United States and even the US Supreme Court has ruled on the rights to speak anonymously. In 1995, the Supreme Court