[AM2000]

From the Legal Information Institute, Cornell University - http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/privacy.html.

In all of its forms, however, the right of privacy must be balanced against the state's compelling interests. Such compelling interests include the promotion of public morality, protection of the individual's psychological health, and improving the quality of life.

[FairOpinion]

"In all of its forms, however, the right of privacy must be balanced against the state's compelling interests. Such compelling interests include the promotion of public morality, protection of the individual's psychological health, and improving the quality of life."

This is preposterous!

And in addition, these are considered "state's compelling interests", while keeping us alive and unharmed from terrorist attacks isn't. ( Not because it isn't mentioned, but because judges keep ruling against it and civil rights activists claim that the right to privacy is more important. I guess the states interests override privacy, when it's about government intrusion for no particular reason, other than exercise power, but not, when it actually really relates to safety and lives, as in survival.)

[Kackikat]

Thanks for the link.