The PATRIOT Act is the pieces of legislation passed through the American congress and senate regarding government agencies right to data surveillance during the wake of 9/11. Allowing government agencies unrestricted access to the data of anyone they consider as terrorists, it has been both used as intended and rampantly misused. The most common misuser of the PATRIOT Acts privileges is the NSA, who in 2013 were blown wide open for surveillancing millions of US citizens without proper reason or warrant.





This act allowed for people's internet privacy and freedoms to be removed in the name of curbing extremism. Internet privacy concerns a users ability to hide their online data from those they do not wish to see it, while internet freedoms include the ability to say what one wishes while anonymous online without persecution, the right to freedom of speech and the right to speak where you wish without persecution.

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