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Wait, so if I get medical care a company with United Health, a company with hundreds of thousands of employees, I have no expectation of privacy just because of
by brookst 2y ago
Wait, so if I get medical care a company with United Health, a company with hundreds of thousands of employees, I have no expectation of privacy just because of their headcount?
- rayiner 2y ago“Expectation of privacy” isn’t in the constitution. The 4th amendment says: “ The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…” Other people’s records concerning you plainly aren’t “[your] … papers.”
- selimthegrim 2y agoI guess FOIA doesn’t emanate from the Constitution either?
- telotortium 2y agoNo, of course not. It's a law passed by Congress. Not all rights emanate from the Constitution. Often they are derived from English common law, or else from laws passed by Congress or the states. Unlike Constitutional rights, rights from these latter two sources can be overridden by other laws (or indeed the Constitution, as interpreted by judges).