Today we have people putting everything about themselves out there in public forums. Obviously, they have no expectation of privacy, or seemingly any desire for it. Such is their choice. But that doesn't give the police or the Feds the right to trace or tap at will.
The line of thinking the .gov is pursuing could be used by hackers to get free of charges. ‘Hey, you have no expectation of privacy when using electronic mediums, so I can hack all I please!’. Slippery slope and all that.
But the US Constitution's Bill of Rights was never meant to be an enumeration of rights like it is now being treated as.
I agree with what you say. But as slippery slopes go, the more we look back to the constitution the more people like Clinton try to change it by it’s own words.
being a living document as they say, they think times have changed so much with technology and all that there is a right to change it.
While people like us think there is a duty to preserve it.
Maybe I am just thinking out loud, but I just wish we could go back to some simpler times in many respects.
Is there an expectation to privacy. Certainly, but only in so far as what you do in the privacy of your own home. The very minute that you allow what you do to leave your domicile, being a smart person, you should expect that it will no longer be private.
Also the moment that you or your actions interact with any other person you might as well figure the rest of the world can and may know about it.
Is this right? No, I wish it were more secure, But it is what I live by.