American Privacy RightsIn 1787, the Constitution was born. The Constitution has been the guiding principle of the American way of life. Our U.S. Constitution contains many points designed to protect America and its people from an overpowered government, our economy, and ourselves. The only thing the Constitution doesn't give us directly is our right to privacy, and our right to privacy has been a big concern lately thanks to the National Security Agency (NSA). (#7) Although our constitution does not necessarily do so. cover the subject of privacy, this suggests that privacy is an acquired right. Some people say that the right to privacy was so obvious that our founding fathers didn't even feel the need to talk about it. (#9) It also didn't help that they probably didn't know we were going to do it. We have the technology we have today. Many laws have been developed and recommended for our privacy. Some save our privacy rights and others allow government spying. (#5) The Patriot Act was created in 2001 to prevent terrorism, which allows the government to spy on law-abiding citizens, just to make sure they don't do anything suspicious. .(#10) Many Americans argue that this is unconstitutional and that spying is against the law and should be against the government as well. Then there are the people who really don't care or disagree with the government. Safety is a major concern of the American people, so if the government says it is doing something to protect them, people will believe it, even if it distorts the truth. The only thing the Constitution directly states about privacy is against unwarranted searches and seizures, which sort of goes against the Patriot's Act. (#5) The Patriot Act allows the NSA to search your laptop, phone, etc. middle of paper...... something like that in the terms and conditions, but the concern of more privacy laws is coming. Some law might exist in the future that would not allow companies to put whatever they want into the agreement. Most big companies probably wouldn't want to do it anyway, because people won't buy into it when word gets out. But big websites like Facebook leak your privacy, and it's perfectly legal when you agree to join the website. (#11) In today's huge online world, our privacy is not too difficult to violate. I believe Americans still enjoy their privacy, but we ourselves have violated it. Social media, phones, the internet, and other things may have leaked our information to our knowledge, but thought nothing of it. Even though people fight for our privacy, we've always had it.