The Patriot Act

The September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City had devastated millions of people throughout the world, especially those closely related to the victims. The US government did not think twice and passed a bill on October 26, 2001 that would expand the government's power to apprehend possible terrorists. This bill is called the Patriot Act. The price of the Patriot Act was the average American's right to privacy.
The Patriot Act gives the government more legal power to do checks on people via phone taps, pen registers, trap and traces, and through the Internet Service P…