Constitutional Right to Privacy: An Unstated Guarantee

The right to privacy is not clearly stated in the Constitution. Some argue that because it doesn’t state “…the right of privacy from Government…” in the document like the freedom of speech, assembly, and so on that we don’t have a constitutional right to privacy. People will always have different options on an issue, however, disagreeing or not there are consequences for violating Human Rights. Citizens of the United States have a right to privacy from government intrusions, it is proclaimed in the fourth amendment and a number of Supreme Court rulings. In the technological world that we are in today, with almost all of our information being electronically stored, it is very important for every human to feel safe that their information is not being watched or stored somewhere else.
The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution is a crucial part of the Right to Privacy. The basis of this amendment is that

As more technology arises, our fight for privacy from the government becomes more strenuous. Our entire lives today are digitalized and stored electronically, compared to before when most information was in a physical form. Unlawful searches and seizures don’t strictly apply to physical information, but they apply to both physical and digital information. The mass collection of digital information by the government is unconstitutional, the people have a right to be secure in their persons and papers. These programs that are designed for collection must be shut down and the seizing of private information must stop. Abraham Lincoln once said, “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow