Posted on 07/11/2018 2:59:37 PM PDT by TBP
The Fourth Amendment broadly guarantees that Americans should be free from government intrusion in their homes and private lives and that infringements on these rights must come with the justification of a warrant or probable cause. These guarantees and protections form the basis of property protections and a right to privacy both of which are fundamental to individual liberty.
In 2015, Kavanaugh went out of his way to minimize these protections. During his tenure on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, he issued a separate concurrence in the denial of a rehearing en banc in Klayman v. Obama. That case dealt with the constitutionality of the National Security Agency’s collection of telephone metadata of all Americans. In telecommunications, metadata is the information on the length and time of calls and their origins and destinations which includes a sweeping amount of data and can offer broad details of the private lives of Americans. In his statement, Kavanaugh sided with the government writing, “In my view, the government’s metadata collection program is entirely consistent with the Fourth Amendment.”
Metadata is term used in the piece and metadata does not include voice.
So far no evidence has shown anything different.
I pity the agent assigned to research all of my internet activity, read my emails and listen to my phone calls.
Wait ... no I don’t! Have fun, suckerfish! lol
I do think they’re collecting content.
Kavenaugh did not say collecting content was ok. IIRC, He said collecting metadata was ok. People have accepted that on phone calls my whole life.
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