4th Amendment: Search and Seizers

4th Amendment in a Nut Shell Guards against unreasonable searches

and seizures. Requires warrant to be supported by

probable cause. Warrant: written permission from a court of law, to

lawfully search and seize. Search and seizures is a major concerned

when begins to invade your privacy.

Background Information NSA: National Security Agency Top Whistleblowers:

Thomas Drake- Former Senior Official Kirk Wiebe- Former Senior Analyst William Binney- Former Technical Director

Whistleblower: person who tells the authority about illegal activities.

William Binney Technical Director (High profile). Did work for the NSA for 37 years. What he did?

Job was to help solve world issues using data analasyst.

Designed Thin Thread Worked to well found a way to filter out the

unessasary info. http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PIPHNlAxY4

Post 9/11 Parts of Thin Thread were being used few

weeks after 9/11. Now Thin Thread was being used without

the protections. Called Stellar Wind. AT&T gave over 300 million records of

communication to the NSA. William Binney quit, believing the

government to be unconstitutional.

How this is all being done? In the process of building $2 billion data

facility in Bluffdale, Utah Binney says, “Capacity to store 100 years

of the worlds communications.” Expected to be running in 2013

Government’s Stance Word play in how they define their

actions. Says not violating your constitutional

rights. Just store information, not using it. Intercept doen’t take place until its listen to.

Why this should be a concern?

Its just stored information UNLESS you become a problem.

The intentions of it doesn’t make it right.

Take Away Even Though as an average American

citizen its almost impossible to influence the decisions that are made in the government, but as long as the majority of citizens are more informed through media on such important topics so America are not kept in the dark about government decisions.

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