Privacy And Wiretapping In Olmstead Vs The United States

The effects of Privacy and Wiretapping

Imagine your phone call is being listened to by more than two people, a little bug recording and listening to your conversation without you knowing, how would you feel about this? The first case of wiretapping that violated privacy was in 1928 with the case of Olmstead vs the United States “Olmstead Vs the United States”. The FBI has been listening to innocent and guilty peoples phone calls throughout the last 90 years, recording thousands of innocent peoples phone calls for no reason and keeping them; everyone should be aware of this and care about it because it’s peoples rights that are being violated. Wiretapping violates the privacy of people and is done illegally and should only be done to people

“RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Prosecutors in the Los Angeles suburb responsible for a huge share of the nation’s wiretaps almost certainly violated federal law when they authorized widespread eavesdropping that police used to make more than 300 arrests and seize millions of dollars in cash and drugs throughout the USA.”(Health and Kelman). Illegal wiretaps lead to the arrests of criminals which is a good thing but should be done legally and should not have to go against the federal law if they would just have categories of people who should be watched also if they stopped wiretapping the drug trafficking would already be done. “In fact, had it not been for wiretaps, the war against organized crimes would have been lost decades ago”(Gallington). Organized crimes would be at an all-time low if we would stop wiretapping because criminals like getting in trouble and making money off it, but instead we could focus our time on real criminals that need to be surveillanced and put away

Daniel J. Gallington said “So also, in most of the rest of the world, there is content surveillance and monitoring of Internet-based traffic by one or more government intelligence or law enforcement agencies—and usually without any threshold showing or requirement for probable cause or reasonable belief to look at the substance of the communication.” He is saying that the government should have wiretapping and shouldn’t have to say anything about it or have probable cause because the internet needs to be monitored. New York Times Said One case involved a group of men in San Diego convicted of sending money to an extremist group in Somalia. The other was presented as a nascent plan to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, although its participants were not charged with any such plot. Both were described by Sean Joyce, deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, at a rare public oversight hearing by the House Intelligence Committee. Wiretapping has helped public safety and is a crucial item to be used when in suspicion of terrorism and keeping America