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Patriot Act allows the government access to an individual 's personal records to determine if someone is engaging in illegal or suspicious activities that could possibly be a threat to our national security. Passport records show when and where an individual has traveled. Might be considered suspicious if an individual travels frequently to countries that harbor terrorists. Although there are sometimes perfectly valid reasons for such circuits. Patriot Act does not just push it around on people 's business because we're curious, or because we' re looking for something incriminationg. There must be a reason that shows a potential threat to our nation 'safety s. The provisions are very similar to our laws, laws of search and grasp. Think of it this way: The police can search your home if it has enough evidence to suspect that she will find something illegal. She has to get a search warrant to do so, unless she has witnessed an immediate threat. An immediate threat could be just hearing someone screaming for help. If an officer has a neighbor that they are not happy simply can not find the person legally 's just goes to try to find something to arrest them. That 's basically how the work of the Patriot Act, except on a much larger scale. If an officer conducts an illegal search and a hold it can be reprimanded or be on, depending on the circumstances, but you can 't blame the police department or your state government for its actions. Patriot Act has a system to protect against illegal access to personal information: "When a person 'prominent; passport files of s are reached, actuates an alarm system in the State Department and the person who had access to the records is questioned" http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN2044494920080321?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews You can 't fault of our government because some employees did something they shouldn' t have it, and got on to him. We all know what they're looking for. The reasons are what 's important. Were they just curious? Looking for information to sell to the media? Trying to find something they felt could really be suspect? In any case, none of these reasons are acceptable because they didn 't follow proper procedures, and didn' t have permission to access those files. In my personal opinion, if Obama acts offended about it … he could make people ask what is the great thing about where I 's traveled a. It could make people become suspicious and ask for the "He is trying to hide something? "" Is it worrying about something in their passport files? " @ Obama2008: Thanks to simplify that, I explain to people who may not understand completely, as some blamed the Patriot Act back. Stated that the Patriot Act does not allow this because down below 'illegal search and seizure' @ Jetglam: no valid or legal reason to check things like that. We do background checks only for valid data. Criminal background check may be, the medical reports can 't, and so on. @ FDM: "Employees of the department's contract status of the three U.S.; Still consider the people who are hired by the State Department, "employees" of the government; My information was obtained from Reuters. Reuters believe to be a valid news source. Moreover, it happened 3 different times: "An official of E.E.U.U. said that the January 9, on February 21 and March 14 this year, "three different contract workers all had access to individual records" of the passport; The fact that now became an issue, can also be considered suspect. s @ Tony: I didn 't say that the Patriot Act requires a permit. An officer as compared to 'the procedures of search and grasp of s as there are certain steps in accordance with Patriot Act Thus, as such, these individuals failed to act within the provisions of the Patriot Act, did not get permission, they followed procedure, and the Patriot Act can not be blamed. However, under the Patriot Act, your search Action of internal security oversight. Cotic reference to it specifically.