Right to Privacy and Freedom of Expression: A Case Study

Right to Privacy Case study
Analytical Essay

Right to privacy and freedom of expression has been a major issue of revolution globally. There
are many countries and leaders who have driven revolution that has toppled governments for not
emphasising on privacy rights. The US constitution contains no expression of rights of privacy
however, the various bills of rights produced by the supreme court of the country has ratified
privacy rights (Bennett & Rabb, 2017). The fourth Amendment is considered one of the crucial
Bills Of Rights that has emphasised on privacy rights especially on property and search actions
taken the police and other intelligence agencies like FBI. The Fourth Amendment passed in the
year 1791 has since been modified a number of times to include number of key aspects
pertaining privacy rights (Nissenbaum, 2018).
The fourth amendment prohibits unreasonable searches of property and seizures and also advises
to have search warrants for this kind of activities having probable cause for the same. In the
modern day environment it is not largely possible to keep the privacy rights of people intact
because of the increasing surveillance by the electronic media over people because there are
number of ways personal data can be collected and becomes tough for the government to oversee
every possible source (Henderson,2017). It is extremely important to understand the seriousness
of the issue presented by the case. Firstly there has been series of robberies and in order to
investigate them the police intervened in the personal life of a suspect. Given the issue it is
important to note that the evidence gathered was not enough to indict the person and hence the
decision to track cell site information was taken which is clearly not right as per the fourth
amendment which means there has been a breach of privacy for Carpenter (Liptak, 2018).