The Patriot Act was designed to help law enforcement in the fight against terrorist future terrorist attacks. A very important part in this is the gathering and development of intelligence information. A positive advantage of the Patriot Act is the expansion of surveillance …show more content…
"The existing law was written in the era of rotary telephones. This new law that I sign today will allow surveillance of all communications used by terrorists, including emails, the Internet, and cell phones." Many people debated over this Act. Americans want the government to go through great lengths to hunt down the terrorists even if it would cost their own freedom, but they also want limits on the government spying because of privacy concerns. The electronic spyware is used for hunting down terrorist but it is very easy for the government to label anyone as a suspected terrorist and start gathering information on them. The patriot Act also allows sneak and peek warrants to be used for any federal crime. This warrant allows the individual to know that there being investigated and allows the law enforcements to break into an individual’s house to search their possessions. There are ten titles that make up the USA Patriot Act, and in the ten titles are important