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Court allows agents to secretly put GPS trackers on cars

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Re: Court allows agents to secretly put GPS trackers on cars

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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This is exactly what I mean when I say the right to privacy is obsolete - by itself, it's no longer capable of protecting the freedoms it was originally intended to preserve.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.

What right to privacy? Privacy is a very simple word. It occurs nowhere in the Constitution.

Re: Court allows agents to secretly put GPS trackers on cars

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is exactly what I mean when I say the right to privacy is obsolete - by itself, it's no longer capable of protecting the freedoms it was originally intended to preserve.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.

What right to privacy? Privacy is a very simple word. It occurs nowhere in the Constitution.

It may appear nowhere in the constitution, but that doesn't mean it isn't constitutionally protected.

The substantive due process protections of the 14th Amendment extend heightened protection to a number of rights. Privacy is one of them. Marriage is another. There are plenty more.

In addition the 4th Amendment has its own privacy implications.

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