cell phone privacy

Cell Phone Privacy
You ask yourself, how can someone get all my personal information while I’m in the comfort of my own home? It’s simple, you’re phone is like an open door - or at least that's how the government likes to look at it. Before modern technology was developed, no one was disturbed or searched without reason. However, if they were- it was for a good reason, and the searches were specific.There was no such thing as “looking around” (Akers n.pag.). But times have changed, and the government has the capabilities of hacking into phones by the permission of huge phone companies like Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and T-Mobile. They lack permission from the customers of these big phone companies The National Security Agency, or the NSA, is gathering billions of records a day and putting them all into a database where they track information on cell phone users, and even track the users whereabouts (Gellman and Soltani n.pag.).The fourth amendment grants protection from unnecessary police harassment, and with recent intrusion of cell phones, the government contradicts that because they want us to believe it’s for the protections of civilians.
They are violating the fourth amendment by getting information from cell phone companies without the permission from customers and using cell phone towers to access data without permission. Going down to the basics of the amendments, the fourth amendment states,”The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”(Ake...

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...hown us that their only reason for continuing their investigation is for the sole purpose of protecting civilians from these “threats” , but it doesn’t seem to be much of an effect.
All in all, the fourth amendment grants protection from unnecessary police harassment, and with the recent invasion of cell phones, the government contradicts that by trying to tell its citizens that cell phone intrusion and programs like the NSA are for the protection of civilians.The government is trying to make us believe that it’s for the protection of it’s civilians but the government has not been successful at tracking any of the “terrorists” or threats. Even if they were wouldn’t they want to make it clear that this tracking of cellphones is actually getting the job done, not just collecting data. That is why there have been protests to stop this unnecessary invasion of privacy.