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Actually, the right to privacy has nothing to do with whether a law is just or unjust. I think we'll see an element of that creep into the law as they very concept of privacy erodes. But the basic idea behind privacy in the Fourth Amendment search-and-seizure context is that police ought to be subject to oversight (by the courts) so that they don't become a menace. Incidentally, the problem with search-and-seizure ju…
This is exactly what I mean when I say the right to privacy is obsolete - by itself, it's no longer capable of protecting the freedoms it was originally intended to preserve. We need something better.
Re: Court allows agents to secretly put GPS trackers on cars
#11What right to privacy? Privacy is a very simple word. It occurs nowhere in the Constitution.