At 04:54 PM 3/14/2003 -0500, Jason Hihn wrote:
IANAL, but the Supreme Court has ruled that we have the right to be left
alone.
Unfortunately, it is not a "right" and I don't think they ever did. The
quote you are referring to was from SC judge Louis Brandeis' minority
opinion in Olmstead v. United States (1928), a wiretap
case. Unfortunately, Olmstead lost. Brandeis argued that allowing
wiretaps intruded on the privacy of the callers, who generally weren't the
object of the wiretap order. This made excellent sense, but the court
reasoned that the government's need to listen outweighed our right to
privacy. Prrivacy, what right to privacy?
steve
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the
government's purpose is beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert
to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest
dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal,
well-meaning but without understanding. -Louis Dembitz Brandeis, lawyer,
judge, and writer (1856-1941)
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