Surveillance And The Threat Of Terrorism

The 4th amendment to the US Constitution serve as a security to the privacy of citizen but as American citizen would rarely have the government to use the surveillance to ensure the nation security from terrorist threat. People use the internet, phones, and cameras to record information. The government do wire taps and now even in the City of Atlanta we have camera on light poles and on the streets in downtown but it is for a good reason to help protect the people that work, live and walk the streets this also help the police where that they are short of help. I think the government has stop more attacks on the country using the surveillance since 9/11 incident. I believed if this will help protect us then the government

In particular, as soon as people step foot into a store, surveillance cameras have facial recognition that can identify any customer (Daniel Zwerdling 1.2). With the intention that cameras will stop crime, surveillance watches people’s every move and is detected by security people. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden confirms that because of people who have stolen things from stores, it has caused everyone who has never committed a crime, to be watched on surveillance (Edward Snowden 2.3). Indeed, monitoring people on surveillance is against what the Fourth Amendment declares because security people do not have a warrant to be watching people who have no reason to be watched. Similarly, terrorism threats have caused the National Security Agency to take “unconstitutional surveillance of America’s communications,” which includes emails and telephone calls. The fact that the National Security Agency takes part in “sweeping surveillance” of people’s communications without a warrant is against the Fourth Amendment and should be amended (ALCU 4.4). Surveillance has prevented crimes from occurring without using warrants, but it is required, under the Fourth Amendment, that a warrant must be

The Patriot Act, an act passed by Congress in 2001 that addressed the topic of privacy in terrorist or radical situations, is controversial in today's society. Although it helps with protection against terroristic events, The Patriot Act is not fair, nor is it constitutional, because it allows the government to intrude on citizens' privacy, it gives governmental individuals too much power, and because the act is invasive to the 4th amendment right. To further describe key points in the act, it states that it allows investigators to use the tools that were already available to investigate organized crime and drug trafficking, and it allows law enforcement officials to obtain a search warrant anywhere a terrorist-related activity occurred.

With today’s technological surveillance capabilities, our actions are observable, recordable and traceable. Surveillance is more intrusive than it has been in the past. For numerous years countries such as the United State and the United Kingdom have been actively monitoring their citizens through the use of surveillance technology. This state surveillance has been increasing with each passing year, consequently invading the citizen’s fundamental constitutional right to privacy,. This has lead to the ethical issues from the use or misuse of technology, one such ethical issue is should a government have the right to use technology to monitor its citizens without their knowledge or approval? For this reason this paper will

The Patriot Act is lengthy and encompasses many issues but its primary purpose was to protect the American Public. I will focus this paper to how the surveillance aspect affects the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, and collection of Metadata.

The government offered the domestic surveillance programs to reinstate a feeling of safety. Although comforting shell shocked citizens, current programs are becoming unnecessarily invasive, financially costly, and controversially uneffective. Many people believe that these programs undermine the fourth amendment of the Constitution of our nation. It is certain that we need domestic surveillance with jihadist groups continually growing but it is obvious that systems in place today are not working.

Despite the Fourth Amendment being created to protect the privacy of the American people, the NSA and other government agencies have put that to the test by using legislation such as the Patriot Act to data mine Americans, keep records on individuals, and create a tension between the American people and the Government, although it has helped the war on

The US government needs to find a happy medium when it comes to surveillance. According to the ACLU, “Our Constitution and democratic system demand that the government be transparent and accountable to the people, not the other way around” (ACLU 1). Of course the government needs to protect the people, but at the same time the government needs to respect the privacy of its constituents. The government is violating the people’s rights to things such as rights to privacy, free speech, due process, and association (ACLU 1). These rights have been paid for through the blood and personal sacrifice of many brave men and women throughout American history. These rights cannot be surrendered so that the government’s job can be made easier. Security is important, but the rights of Americans are too hefty of a price to pay for it. Privacy, free speech, due process, and association are critical components of American society and without it, Americans’ lives and democracy are undermined. (Russel 3)

To have a better understanding of how the surveillance on people has changed in the past decade, we have to focus on the factors

The government has been proved to be spying on American’s privacy for many reasons that are not covered under the Fourth Amendment. This act of manipulation includes monitoring people’s conversations, examining belongings with only a subpoenas, and searching information of social medias; however, these acts are sometimes needed because of terrorist activity. A novelist, Jonathan Franzen, once stated, "without privacy there is no point in being an individual (source 4).”

In today’s day and age, privacy and keeping what belongs to you private, is a very sensitive yet important matter. Luckily, in the Bill of Rights there is a Fourth Amendment right to privacy and improper search and seizer. There are also many court cases that prove why that the right to privacy matters and plays a key role in our society. Another new major problem is that of wiretapping. The government will listen in on the phone calls of citizens, go through their internet searches, and read their emails and texts without them knowing it, and it is becoming a problem for most people. In today’s society, the government keeps itself very private to the public, but the privacy of the citizens is not a concern when the government violates the fourth amendment right, wiretaps phones, and ignores past court cases that stress the importance of the people’s right to privacy.

The authors explore an issue at the very heart of the surveillance legitimacy, they seek to explain where the NSA derives authority to operate and collect data. They further examine the legal capacity to conduct such actions, absent traditional requirements of search and seizure, as defined by the Fourth Amendment of the

considering such an inconceivable act of bigotry, but the government has become increasingly popular in spying into the lives of their own citizens, further violating rights and freedoms. For instance, ‘Your Digital Trail,’ readers become aware of the effortless tactics in which the government can access personal information through digital files (Zwerdling, 2013). In addition to this information, the author shares with the public that the government can also obtain travel information, medical conditions, private conversations, cell phone call logs and emails (Zwerdling, 2013). The purpose of this national spying agency? To allow the government to search through information without a warrant as mandated by the fourth amendment of the Constitution. One original intention of these practices may have been to protect citizens from international dangers, but in reality, it is a loophole to the Constitution the government is sworn to

Technology, through the times, has offered many options in protecting the society from crimes and other evil-doings. However, with industrialization, the proliferation of computers and complex political and social systems, our society needs a heightened level of security. Police and military personnel continue guarding us against criminals and terrorists. However, there is the need for individuals to consult other security services and private eyes to conduct their own investigations and protect their properties, families, and businesses. They invest in modern and efficient surveillance equipment to monitor activities within their facilities such as spy cameras to secure their families and alert them of suspicious individuals.

We as a nation, have had numerous first-hand experiences with terrorism and violence. Because of the experience and pain we were put through as a nation, many may not think twice about being subjected to government surveillance. Our security from future terrorist attacks is important, but not as important as our privacy. People shouldn’t be so quick to give up their rights to have privacy in order to allow the government to monitor national security. Giving the government the power to invade our privacy makes it easy for them to violate their power and strip citizens of their constitutional rights. Some people will argue that the price one has to pay for safety is his rights to privacy being taken away. As Benjamin Franklin once said, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” (Independence Hall Association). In other words, those who are willing to give up their privacy for security, deserve neither. We the people, are those who make up this nation, and we surely should not allow the government to invade our privacy or void our 4th amendment right.