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A 5 page paper which examines how the Internet affects privacy, considers the First Amendment and discusses important information to ensure privacy will be protected. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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drafted the Constitution. In the twenty-first century, people are accessing the Internet in ever-growing numbers for information purposes, email, banking, to purchase goods and services, and to pay bills,
just to name a few. In transactions that involve a credit or monetary transaction, a transmission of personal information such as names, addresses, telephone numbers, credit card and banking
account numbers, and social security numbers is required. This information can be easily traced by companies and corporations on the Internet, as well as knowledgeable programmers (often referred to
as "hackers") by employing a variety of different methods, the practice of which Internet users have only recently become aware. Information
on the Internet superhighway is only a mouse click away, and this includes pornographic texts and photographs. The issue of privacy and the ways in which the Internet can
pose a legitimate threat has focused considerable attention on the First Amendment, and how it pertains to the Internet. Article 1 of the US Constitution states, "Congress shall make
no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably
to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" (The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America, 1979, p. 31).
Since this Amendment ensures freedom of speech for all Americans, how can any type of restrictions be placed on the Internet and the information it provides? Traditionally, the American
judicial system has distinguished between "traditional forms" of technology, and other, more advanced forms, such as multimedia communications (Weaver, 2000). At the time the Constitution was ratified in 1789,
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