Public Safety and Privacy of Individuals | Paper

Running head: AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
American Government
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Introduction
The right to privacy is considered to be an essential component of several legal traditions
the aim of which is to prohibit government and private actions that threaten the privacy of
individuals. This paper mainly focuses on analyzing a case involving public safety and privacy
of individuals. This paper also aims to answer some questions related to the case.
Discussion
Almost 150 national Constitutions mentioned right to privacy. However, right to privacy
is not mentioned in the Constitution of the U.S. clearly. Various constitutional amendments
provide certain protections under the U.S. Constitutions. Such as, The Fourth and The Fifth
Amendment protects individual’s privacy against unreasonable searches and privacy of personal
information respectively. Apart from that certain statutory law helps to protect the right to
privacy, for instance Federal Trade Commission imposes the right to privacy in several privacy
statements and policies (Reidenberg, 2014). The right to privacy is referred to in the Fourth
Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, according to which the right of the individuals must be safe
in their families, papers and effects, against irrational examinations and confiscations. Right to
privacy must not not be infringed, and warrants must not be delivered, unless there exists
probable grounds for doing so reinforced by jurisdiction. In this way the U.S. Constitution tries
to protect the right to privacy (Clement, Schwarzfeld & Thompson, 2011).
Presently, in the era of technological development several wide and variety of functions
are performed by the mobile phones. Mobiles phones attaches to a set of radio antennas
continuously which is known as ‘cell sites’. Whenever a phone attaches to a cell site, a time-
stamped record is generated, which is known as ‘cell-site location information or CSLI (Schilit,