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The fourth amendment is to protect you against being arrested and deprived of life, liberty or property without due process. A warrant is part of the process in
by imgabe 6y ago
The fourth amendment is to protect you against being arrested and deprived of life, liberty or property without due process. A warrant is part of the process in making sure that an arrest is justified.
Intelligence agencies have no authority to arrest you, nor would they have any interest in doing so. Their job is to gather information about what other countries are doing that might be harmful to the US.
Even then, I think warrants generally aren't required for publicly available information.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> The fourth amendment is to protect you against being arrested and deprived of life, liberty or property without due process. Privacy is liberty and property is property. Unreasonable search and seizure is unreasonable and prohibited (even if there is no current effective remedy) in all cases, not just criminal justice. > Even then, I think warrants generally aren't required for publicly available information. This does seem to be the decisive issue in this specific case.
- salawat 6y agoWelcome to Third Party Doctrine. A.K.A how to do an end run around the constitution by laundering the data collection to private entities.
- vkou 6y ago> Privacy is liberty and property is property. Unreasonable search and seizure is unreasonable and prohibited (even if there is no current effective remedy) in all cases, not just criminal justice. Your water utility voluntarily selling information about your water usage to the government is not unreasonable search and seizure, and does not deprive you of any property. I don't think you're going to meet a lot of legal success by framing privacy in this context.