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According to some experts, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in where you are, what you are doing, or with whom you are communicating. This is known as "metadata" and the 4th doesn't apply.

One only has to wonder what this capacity for surveillance would have done to our efforts to gain independence from Britian, or integrate our schools, or end our involvement in Viet Nam, or any of a number of other topics of general concern to the citizenry of this nation. And of course, there is the always present threat that surveillance developed for benign purposes will be used for less benign purposes by after the fact bad actors. See, for instance, Will Smith's movie, Enemy of the State.

See the ACLU's take on this issue.


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