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Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by hollerith on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @01:07AM (#39987148)
There's no right to privacy in the 4th Amendment.

But more importantly, there are huge differences between internet anonymity and the older comceptualization of a right to privacy, which has mostly to do with shielding conversations between people who know each other's identities (real names and addresses) from prying government eyes. Shielding such conversations from prying government eyes is not incompatible with preventing teenagers from using social media.

Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by willvarfar on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @01:33AM (#39987271)
It's interesting that, historically, privacy didn't need protecting because it was trivially available and people won't have thought much about the possibility that in the future it would not longer be technically available.

Privacy didn't need protecting in history before bugging. If a founding father wanted to talk to someone privately they just went stood apart from everybody else.

50 years ago, standing apart no longer provided privacy because of long range microphones etc, but those were targeted attacks on diplomats etc.

Nowadays, you can probably do a nice undergrad project to recreate conversations from lip reading streetview video clips.

Privacy was defacto available hundreds of years ago, but is technically impossible now. (Imagine the kinds of body checks that will be introduced before you enter a US SCIF post the chess cheating scandal!)

Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by hollerith on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @01:42AM (#39987321)
The recent emphasis on internet anonymity is mostly not a response to better tech for eavesdropping.
Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by bigstrat2003 on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @03:28AM (#39987935)
> There's no right to privacy in the 4th Amendment.

The Constitution is not an enumeration of rights that the people have. It even says so itself, in the ninth amendment. So there doesn't need to be text which says you have a right to privacy: you have that right even without it being listed.