The Patriot Act and Illegal and Legal Electronic Warrantless Searches

Since the signing of the Patriot Act after the terrorists’ attacks of September 11, 2001, the U. S. Government has been accused of abusing the executive powers as they relate to the Patriot Act and the Illegal and Legal warrant less searches of average Americans. The accusations stem from illegally wiretapping average Americans’ electronic communications, to violating average Americans’ rights to privacy, to violating average Americans’ rights to proper searches and seizures, and finally violating average Americans’ civil liberties.

To gain a better understanding of the Patriot Act, it will be defined as how it relates to electronic intercepting of communications, as how it relates to the three laws pertinent to wiretapping, as how it relates to the amendments to the rights to privacy as well as how it relates to the supporting facts of past governmental illegal and legal warrant less searches of electronic information. The supporting facts will be addressed from the laws, amendments, and articles.

After researching to learn more about the Patriot Act in relation to Illegal and legal warrant less searches, there is undoubtedly facts that the government has performed Illegal warrant less searches on average Americans. Therefore, it would be beneficial for the average law-abiding Americans to protect their rights to privacy, civil liberties, et cetera by implementing cryptography on their networks.