12 US states have laws against surreptitiously recording private figures. Their media and democratic institutions seem to function about as well as the rest. M

12 US states have laws against surreptitiously recording private figures. Their media and democratic institutions seem to function about as well as the rest. Most people believe that not all information is newsworthy. That includes most journalists, who try to balance people's rights to live their lives unmolested with the public interest. If what Jason Gargac is doing is journalism, so is "revenge porn". Gargac also lied about his recording and hypocritically asked the Post-Dispatch to withhold his name "because privacy concerns". What point are you trying to make about warrantless spying? The legal rationalization relies on a reductionist view of privacy similar to yours.