[palmer]

You're right. I can't creatively stretch the definition of privacy like you can. I just think allowing the wire negates it. I'm just stuck on that idea. Nor do I see any protection of privacy obligations in the Constitution. Maybe I need to think more creative about the Federal government's role in our lives.

[HighWheeler]

"I just think allowing the wire negates [privacy]"

Of course you do.

You also think that having a front door to anyone's house means that you can stand there and ring the doorbell all day, that you can walk side by side with anyone on the street where ever they go trying to sell your crap, that you have a "right" to continually try hacking anyone's computer all day because they're on-line, and you can stand peering into anyone's windows since they have the windows in their house and car.

There are plenty of laws to stop these invasions of privacy, too. These are the protections provided by the government because other idiots with your thought processes can't fit into what would otherwise be a freer society.