Privacy
Every person in the world probably wants to have some privacy in their lives, or at least to have control over it. A lot of people today think they have a right to privacy that no one could infringe. Most people get a sense of security being at home with their doors locked and window blinds closed. People think their business is theirs and no one is going to find out about it. And this may be the case as there are laws that protect people’s privacy in some form or another. Unfortunately for people, there are no laws that directly refer to a person’s right to privacy, only laws that insinuate a person’s right to privacy and they are limited at that. The Bill of Rights was an attempt at protecting specific aspects of privacy. Back when the bill of rights was first written, it encompassed everything people considered to be private to them and thus, they could have a right to privacy. But with the advent of new technologies and the invention of telecommunications, the Bill of Rights no longer encompassed all that people would consider private.
The events that took place on September 11, 2001 had a massive impact on the way privacy and information was looked at. On September 11, 2001 terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon; this caused the government to start regarding the existing privacy laws as inadequate. The government came to the conclusion that the event’s could have been prevented with proper screening of people and a better information network that would allow anticipating possible threats to national security. Congress and the President used the events of 9/11 to enact a law known as the USA Patriot Act. The purpose of the Patriot Act was to unite and strengthen America by providing appropriate Tools to prevent threats to national security, along with the new National Security Agency. To accomplish its purpose, the act removed some restrictions on existing privacy laws so that agencies tasked with enforcing this...