Re:Email privacy bill unanimously passes U.S. House
by arkades on Thursday April 28, 2016 @11:33PM
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> The whole expectation of privacy metric is bogus.
Yes and no.
"[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches..." can very reasonably be read as an expectation of privacy. "The government will not, without due cause, search your papers and effects" is a very fair paraphrasing.
As for our deference to this centuries old document: we do it because the Constitution is the only thing that overcomes the democratic will. When the Supreme Court struck down bans on interracial marriage as unconstitutional, the vast majority of Americans were opposed to it.