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The Fourth amendment - one that needs to be updated.

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The Fourth amendment - one that needs to be updated.

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The fourth amendment is one of the most important rights US citizens have. It protects people from unreasonable searches. However, this amendment definitely needs to be updated with the rise of the internet.

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The internet raises serious privacy concerns, as many transactions are done over the internet. But should investigators be able to go into a person’s Private accounts?

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The world has evolved a lot today, and it is far different from the time the founding fathers wrote the constitution. Back then, your belongings meant physical things that you could touch. However, today, your “stuff” may be things on your email account. The founding fathers obviously wanted the 4th amendment to keep people from being abused by the government, but today, information that is kept on the web may be essential to gather evidence for cases

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The Rocky Mountain Bank vs Google case happened in 2009, when a Rocky Mountain bank employee accidentally sent sensitive data of over 1,000 of it’s clients data to a gmail user. The bank told Google to lock the gmail user’s account down, but google refused.

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In 2015, Apple refused to unlock an iPhone for the FBI, who were investigating a shooting in San Bernardino. In the end, a federal judge ruled in favor of Apple, but not without raising serious issues on cybersecurity. Apple claimed that unlocking the iPhone would put millions of other iPhone user’s data in danger.

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So why does this mean so much and what should we do?

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So why does this mean so much and what should we do?

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As illustrated above, both Apple and Google had to deal with serious privacy issues, and the reason why these cases had so much controversy was because there were no hard rules on internet privacy. Therefore, this amendment needs updating

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The 4th amendment states that a person be free of unreasonable searches and seizures. This stops the government from invading people’s privacy, thus making it an important right. However, it does not contain any information about privacy in regards to the internet. Therefore, the 4th amendment should also have an extra clause, one that states “law enforcement must receive warrants for online searches,” as an owner will expect their account to be private.

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As seen in the Apple-FBI cases, the FBI asked Apple to unlock the phone. However, Apple refused. If this law was changed, and the FBI had gotten a warrant instead, all of this could have been avoided.

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If a clause is not added to the 4th amendment regarding the internet, then it would be impossible to be able to conduct searches necessary to keep citizens safe. As technology keeps on improving, more and more data will be stored online. If this is not added in, then every court case would be tedious and time consuming.