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Technology is a growing invention that has rapidly increased the lack of

human connection and increased the invasion of citizens’ privacy from the government.

The United States provides safety for the privacy of the people from the Fourth and

Fourteenth Amendment with the knowledgeable loophole of The Third Party Doctrine.

There have been many court cases within the millennial age but one being The United

States v. Dionisio in 1973 when the court revealed that there is an extent to the privacy

we the people are guaranteed. Millennials are knowingly allowing the government to

invade other because of the advancement of technology today. To find solutions,

corporations and the environment of it need to be adjusted into teaching kids how to

balance the digital world, patience and life-fulfillment.

There’s theory in the millennial age that technology, especially cell phones,

is the root of real-world issues in society. Today, millennials are institutionalized with

impatience and given mechanisms for instant gratification; the feeling of entitlement has

put a rift between human connection and the filtered reality through cell phones (Sinek).

An example being: stress forms from the lack of deep meaningful relationships,

technology comes into play when people are not looking to others for a helping hand but

social media because the approval of others releases a chemical called “dopamine”

allowing that instant gratification to be an anchor for the consumer to go to for self love

or confidence. Technology is not bad, too much of it has influenced negative outcomes

by millennials not being taught willpower or patience, hence, unknowingly provokes the

exposure of their privacy to the government. Willpower is so weakened today that a form
of technology is constantly accessible to one; take that temptation away, there is nothing

to feed that instant gratification to release privacy (David-Ferdon S1-S5).

Dopamine has been described by Antoine Kanamugire as “a

neurotransmitter chemical that is involved in pleasure and motivation” (23). Young,

growing millennials cannot cope with the chemical of dopamine until there is balance in

socal skill and technology for the outcome, one day, being that human connection will be

an outlet as equal or greater than technology. Nonetheless, the intensive stress for

adolescents to receive the constant feeling of dopamine, amplifies the the need to be

accepted, with no fault of their own because the adolescent has been given a bad hand

growing up to self esteem and technology, so, to “fix” a person’s confidence, millennials

are given technology. The rapid increase of the uprising age of technology and lack of

connection with peers has released too much dopamine that the increase will only

continue to grow and the government will willingly and knowingly, ensure safety through

the invasion of privacy because of the significant trend from the lack of simple patience.

The average adolescent is so accustomed to the gratification of other

people through social media that filters are put on emotions and appearance that will not

reveal the true mental state of the person which is a problem because the government will

not know if that person is a threat, there will be no warning, but if there is, the Third

Party Doctrine loopholes take action. Theoretically, the addiction to technology in time

can influence the government to have free access to an individuals privacy because the

inflation can be the only access to protection of citizens. David-Ferdon and Hertz add on,

“this finding suggests that for over two-thirds of harassment victims, their use of new

forms of media technology created a vulnerability that they may not have typically
experienced elsewhere,” increasing the aggression within the consumer and a fifty

percent escalation on adolescent victims (S1-S5). Social media is a child to dopamine

because the chemical is the same drug that can make a person addicted to alcohol,

smoking, exercising etc; In other words, social media isn’t a hobby to obtain, it is now

the culture of the millennial age.

Dating back to July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment affiliates to the

Reconstruction Amendments and the United States Constitution in fairness to citizenship

and equal protection under the laws as naturalized rights. The equal right of man still

stands but the problem proceeds through other ratifications as well because of the lack of

knowledge citizens have of privacy and loopholes the government yield, the adolescent

thought was ensured. The Third Party Doctrine assesses the expectation of privacy of

“voluntary consent” within the government--does not need approval of the person

because the information is not disclosed to privacy because it was given to the 3rd party

(Mund 54). In example to to a third party, the technology company “Apple Inc.” assures

the customers that their devices are under security and protection to gain more number in

consumers. Another viable factor to the lack of knowledge we are given social media

through a different approach of users not being warned their privacy is through a third

party that impact the millennial age to believe that their conversations are not exposed

and are 100% private which lead to people being more open to saying whatever it is they

want and that helps the government tremendously.

Though the government uses the Third Party Doctrine as a mechanism for security,

citizens of the U.S. are protected through the Fourth Amendment. Jonathan Kim from

Cornell Law School describes the amendment as, “The right of the people to be secure in
their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,

shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by

Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons

or things to be seized,” which all began as part of the Bill of Rights in 1789. Because of

the lack of “reasonable expectation” in privacy, the government can gather cases and info

as to the search upon privacy without violating the Fourth Amendment (Mund 241).

“Reasonable expectation” can be described as a scope to a broader range of possibilities

to privacy and what action the government can take without abusing the amendment

which can be a loophole to the restriction of compromising citizens natural rights and

privacy.

In 1973, a court case based solely on voice samples in The United States v.

Dionisio concluded that the Fourth Amendment does not provide protection for what an

individual exposes to the public, work space, or their own home whether that person is

aware of their rights restrictions or not. The court ruled that there in fact was no violation

of the amendment with the backing statement that anything exposed that the government

can see as a reasonable cause can be used against the accused. What citizens did not

retain the knowledge of in the adolescents was the extension of rights given and that there

are loopholes for the government to safeguard what they believe is reasonable enough to

invade privacy.

Discrepancy between the government and the millennial age continues but the

root of the concern is where the adolescents take the problem for their need of instant

gratification--corporate companies. Millennials are being put into corporate environments

who are not mentally prepared because of the bad hand dealt with growing up such as:
the digital world, being taught the person can get anything they want and the self esteem

boost from not being exposed to the realization that you most do not getting everything

handed to them. The adolescent are not finding deep fulfillment in life or work because

they are not being taught balance between the digital world and the real world of human

connection. Because of this, the blind mechanism to overcoming this balance is

negatively impacting people to higher rates of drug overdose, depression and suicide as

worst case scenario; best case scenario, the millennial will not find joy in corporate

environments because they don’t know how to and corporations aren’t teaching them and

care more about the numbers of a year than the kids of the growing generation for

lifetime of a long-term fulfillment of life (Sinek).

By teaching kids the little “innocuous” moments of social skills, innovation and

human connection arise. With the lack of balance corporations are taking to teach kids,

companies now have to work extra hard to establish a fulfillment of life by keeping their

mental, emotional and physical health in tact. To first get the social skills to play,

companies have to form mechanisms or rules for a slow steady human interaction to

spark with the restrictions or ideas of: no cell phones in the conference room, not

charging your phone in the same room as you, speaking to someone you live with before

checking your phone, or buying an alarm clock instead of using your phone. These

solutions, these human connections, for innovations to accelerate, the government won’t

have to study the privacy of citizens so much, the loopholes of the fourth amendment will

decrease, naturalized rights from the fourteenth amendment will not have to be an

additional; concern to technology because social skills of more human interaction will be

put into place when the temptation is decreased, taken away, or corporations teach kids
the virtue of patience in the real world instead of raising kids with instant gratification

and putting them into corporate environments without balance.

As the United States continues to invent new ideas and more advanced forms of

technology, kids are blindly put into the real world without the help to prepare as

adolescents. What people are not seen as a root to the problem of the millennial age is the

mental state kids are put in to receive instant gratification the government takes hold of

this as reasonable cause to invade privacy because of the lack of balance between human

connection and patience within the digital world culture. Because of the uprising in best

case scenarios of not fully enjoying the fulfillment of life and the worst case scenario

being an increase of depression or death, companies have to put in more work so

millennials can balance when corporations need to be caring more about the mental state

and person. With this adjustment and change, the world can change significantly.

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The Discrepancy Of Millennials and the Government

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