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That's not my understanding of it. I can't be frisked, house searched, be forced to hand over documents or other items for review without a very compelling reas
by jsgo 7y ago
That's not my understanding of it. I can't be frisked, house searched, be forced to hand over documents or other items for review without a very compelling reason is my understanding.
A government worker watching me walk from my car to the grocery store, come out and load groceries into the car, let out an expletive and walk back into the grocery store to buy the bread that was forgotten, and then head back to my car isn't something I'm protected against. Not sure the value in it, but there's nothing preventing them from doing so.
Similarly, if someone made a public post on Facebook or some other social media site threatening someone at the city council, facial recognition picks them up at some government building and they linked the facial recognition to name which linked back to their social media and that post showed up, I don't think they'd be in the wrong for then searching them. Constitutionally. Does it feel weird? Sure, but everything there is public and at that point it creates the basis for a reasonable search so searching them for weapons and/or charging them with communicating a threat seems fair now.
Now if we're talking about someone pre-emptively scouring a person's cloud storage and finding something worth investigating, that'd violate it in my book.
- thedaemon 7y agoThe constitution was written well before electrical technology was the norm.
- detaro 7y agoThere's at least a reasonable argument that the scale plays a role. It could be somewhat similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Jones#Justice_Alito https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Jones#Justice... - the expectation of privacy is violated because digital tools allow a larger breadth of surveillance that crosses a line.