In the article Protect Cell Phone Privacy on the Daily Texan Lisa Kinzer speaks about HB1608 which would set stronger restrictions and boundaries on authorities ability to gain access to one's cell phone. After 9/11 it has been as simple as a couple of pressed buttons to have access to hand held devices which American's worlds revolve around. The reasons behind 'hacking' into our cell phones were justifiable, then, with the situation we were in, but authorities took a bit of an advantage of being in a bad place. Authorities could and can even 11 years later have access to the deepest of our conversations, e-mails, facebooks, texts, where we are in relation to a cell tower, anything that can be held in our devices can be held in their hands whenever they would like without any justification or consent from any one including ourselves. This is our Free America? I think that is a bit past violating our right to privacy.
There is a fine line that needs to be drawn and hopefully this bill will draw it. If there are previous allocations against someone, or probable cause then I agree that it is completely appropriate to gain access to any device, but with someone's consent or a warrant. This bill will assure that cell phone providers are not being bribed by money, which has previously been done, to release cell phone records, and will document exactly what is being accessed when, and exactly how many tax dollars will be spent on warrants to gain access to cell phone records. This bill is a much needed step back toward the privacy we deserve as Americans that we had before 9/11.
One of my classmates wrote a post called “Privacy... what's that?” and it talks about a bill HB1608 that hopefully will set stronger restrictions whenever police want to access our cellphones, texts, Facebook, etc. I kind of disagree when she’s saying that police should access our cellphones but just if they have a warrant. I think everyone should have their own privacy with or without a warrant, I don’t have anything to hide from police but I think we should respect everybody’s privacy. It would be different if police thinks somebody is suspicious and they want to investigate, other than that, I say no to police accessing our privacy. I understand, we can’t do anything and maybe our opinion doesn't even matter but like my classmate said, where’s our privacy? Privacy…..what’s that?
ReplyDeleteMexico right now is full of crimes and corrupts; over there literally everybody could have access to your phone, texts, Facebook, etc. One of my uncle’s friends was talking to somebody from his family, they were talking about how bad Mexico is right now and a lot more things; within a week somebody came to his house and yelled at him and put a gun in his head saying that that was the last time he talks about how bad Mexico is and a bunch of other things with somebody, that he was going to be monitored and they were going to have access to his cellphone to see what calls he would make and what was he going to talk about.