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AFAICT, neither was OP. They said: We need a constitutional amendment that says "we really mean it" with respect to the 4th and 9th amendments, explicitly in
by simoncion 5mo ago
AFAICT, neither was OP. They said:
We need a constitutional amendment that says "we really mean it" with respect to the 4th and 9th amendments, explicitly including personal digital data and criminalizing general surveillance. With fangs.
You replied:
The border search exception was designed by the framers.
and I wrote the clarification that I did because -given the context- it seemed pretty clear to me that you'd missed OP's point.
I'd go further and argue that law enforcement and other government agents should be absolutely prohibited from accessing ordinary people's data [0] stored with or collected/computed by a third party without first getting a warrant or other such authorization from The Court. It has been ages since most of that sort of data could reasonably be considered «incidental business records», and how the law treats it absolutely needs to be updated to match the reality of how regular people's day-to-day interactions with third parties have changed.
[0] ...or metadata...
- tptacek 5mo agoIt's good to want things!
- simoncion 5mo agoI've been getting the impression that all that metaphorical rocket fuel you and your colleagues have been metaphorically sipping is burning you out. Don't be hesitant to take a sabbatical or extended vacation to perform a solid personal health check. As I'm sure you know, chronic exhaustion and overwork is insidious and impairs your ability to recognize that you're affected by it. Even those of us who very definitely know better than to get caught by it sometimes get caught by it... and getting sufficiently out from under it to even recognize that you've been substantially impaired by it (let alone fully recover from it) takes more time than one might expect.
- tptacek 5mo agoI'm sorry, I don't understand what this has to do with the thread? Did you mean to respond to some other comment I wrote?