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Roe vs Wade educated me on the fact that the US Constitution never mentions a right to privacy. Normally the response would be "so just add it" but that's Amer

• lrvick 4y ago
  This is covered by the Bill of Rights. First amendment - privacy of beliefs Third amendment - privacy of the home Fourth amendment - privacy of person and possessions Fifth amendment - privacy of personal information If only the extraordinarily powerful and well funded defend-from-the-government second amendment advocacy groups understood that the freedoms they think they are protecting with guns are being lost from the data they freely give to governments and corporations. State DMVs make millions every year selling home addresses and emails to marketing firms and no one cares.
• saalweachter 4y ago
  That's what the Ninth Amendment is there for, hypothetically. The Bill of Rights was never intended to be an exhaustive enumeration of even fundamental rights, and the Ninth Amendment explicitly says that you cannot ascribe significance to a right having been omitted from the enumeration. That depends on the SCOTUS deciding there is an unenumerated right being infringed upon, and historically the SCOTUS has preferred to tie judgements to enumerated rights even if it'd be simpler to just say outright, "this is an unenumerated right", but still, we're not supposed to need to actually spell them all out. In theory. In practice--