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As hyperbolic as it stands, right to privacy should be an amendment. As long as the internet continues to be an integral part of banking, insurance, healthcare,
by Avicebron 6mo ago
As hyperbolic as it stands, right to privacy should be an amendment. As long as the internet continues to be an integral part of banking, insurance, healthcare, education, (name anything vaguely personal) we can't allow free, unmonitored transit around it to be curtailed. Imagine losing your health insurance because the rightspeak of yesterday became the wrongspeak of today. It's insane people can't grasp this.
- mindcrime 6mo agoAs hyperbolic as it stands, right to privacy should be an amendment. I don't think it's hyperbolic at all. I think this is something that absolutely must happen, and that it's pretty obvious that it must happen. But then again, I often cite Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four as the most influential book I've ever read in my life, so I'm not exactly unbiased.
- atmavatar 6mo agoThe fourth amendment is already what you're asking for. Unfortunately, it was worded to address the privacy concerns of the time and the Supreme Court over the years has watered it down significantly, not the least of which has been to allow the warrantless purchase of personal information from corporations who collect it from their customers, regardless of their consent or knowledge. Notwithstanding whether there's a chance at being ratified, we could update the fourth amendment to modernize it and counter bad Supreme Court rulings as well, but I'm afraid it's going to have to be a repeated process of touching it up from time to time in the face of bad actors in government who want to chip away at its protections.