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Re:Chinese police use facial recognition tech to arrest susp... by maxxxxx on Friday April 13, 2018 @02:16PM (#16832524)
The constution was written more then 200 years ago based on the world back then. Maybe it's time to adapt the rules to our world. I don't think the authors of the Constitution even remotely imagined the possibility that one institution could have perfect surveillance of the whole country. But that's where we are going if we don't change the rules.
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Re:Chinese police use facial recognition tech to arrest susp... by Clubber on Friday April 13, 2018 @02:24PM (#16832602)
The constitution has plenty of privacy rights, our government just chooses to circumvent them through sly interpretation, backed up by the courts.

The legal ability of police to spy that we have today is such circumvention.

But to your point, if the government of the last 5 decades is willing to skirt the constitution as written, I'm not sure how much a new one with stronger verbiage will fair.

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Re:Chinese police use facial recognition tech to arrest susp... by maxxxxx on Friday April 13, 2018 @02:37PM (#16832725)
It seems the Constitution leaves a lot to room for interpretation. Otherwise placing people on the supreme court wouldn't be such a big deal. Tightening up some paragraphs would probably help a lot.
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