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How the Government Can Collect Your Personal Information Without a Warrant
From border searches to outdated laws regarding electronic communication, the government can legally access personal information in a variety of ways.
Earlier this year, President Trump took to Twitter to accuse President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower, and followed up those claims by requesting an investigation. Former FBI director James Comey later testified that he had "no information" to support Trump’s wiretapping claims — but not long after, Trump doubled down on his attacks, accusing Susan Rice, former national security adviser to Obama, of illegally seeking and sharing intelligence information about Trump’s associates. Though Rice did request to “unmask” some names in a classified foreign intelligence report that turned out to include Trump campaign and transition team members, she denies any wrongdoing, and there’s no evidence that it was done for political reasons (versus legitimate intelligence purposes). Still, the whole saga does raise questions about how the American government can gather personal information about its citizens. “There is a good point buried in all that,” Neema Singh Guliani, ACLU legislative counsel, tells Teen Vogue. “One of the things that is not inaccurate is that it is very easy for the government to get data about Americans.
And once the government has that information, Singh Guliani says, they can use it in various aways against individual Americans — like singling out protestors, enforcing immigration laws, and prosecuting domestic crimes — without revealing to those Americans how they got the information to begin with. Technically, under the Fourth Amendment, American citizens and resident non-citizens are protected against “unreasonable searches and seizures” — including surveillance — without warrants. So then how does the government get around that? Here are the basics on some of the key ways.