The Pros And Cons Of Internet Privacy

With technology advancing, some may use information as a way to penetrate security to violate privacy and personal information to hurt others. Information can be found to pinpoint criminal activity and save lives. However, this may violate our right to privacy and censorship for innocent civilians. The First Amendment in the United States Constitution prohibits any law that effects freedom to excise religion, the freedom of speech, freedom of press, interfering the right to peaceful assembly, and prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. Including the Fourth Amendment, that alludes the right to privacy. There have been a few situations with Apple protecting privacy and security of civilians, including criminals.

This exception, if granted by the ISP would completely undermine our fourth amendment. The ECPA reform may be required as in 1986, most people did not have computers, emails, smartphones, GPS, tablets, cloud storage, social media. As this is the case, much reform is needed to secure the privacy of the citizen, as most are unaware of their information being so easily accessed by others. People have become easy to track, easy to stalk, easy to read with this limitation of possible violations of our fourth amendment.

The criticism of the Patriot Act has been evident in which the federal law enforcement is able to collect private information for the sake of national security. However, as well as debates on whether private companies can collect and share the data collected through financial, medical, or consumer data. Issues with tracking individuals access to websites and browser history is a large concern. The issue is not right of privacy or the need for publicity, but rather a good way to balance privacy and public