I think this is another example how disruptive technology can be. Technically, you’re in public and have no expectations of privacy. That said, if you go to some place where nobody else is, to have a private conversation, you expect it to be private. This basically highlights that the only private place is your property.
This basically highlights that the only private place is your property.”
That is no longer true. The “Internet of Things” will be watching and recording you 24 hours a day.
The law on surveillance needs to change.
Technology is playing heck with the Fourth Amendment.
Here technology permits access to information that was assumed to be inaccessible.
OTOH encryption prevents it from accessing data it was meant to access.
Both issues can be resolved by looking at what the Founders intended.
“This basically highlights that the only private place is your property.”
Or a golf course..........
Ever hear of long range directional microphones?
The only place private any more is inside your own head.
No; your not being paranoid, when THEY admit to listening AND watching you.
"This basically highlights that the only private place is your property.
Vans with thermal imaging cameras, cameras, lasers bounced off window panes, drones, real time reports from electric and water meters to determine how many people are in the house, measuring quantity of internet packets entering and leaving the property....
Not very familiar with the capabilities of parabolic microphones, are you?
Not when you carry around a device that can be used to spy on your movements and communications! And even without one, there’s nothing to stop the government from snooping on you on your own property as a matter of course, sans warrant.