Re:U.S. NSA domestic phone spying program illegal: appeals c...
by a3n on Thursday May 07, 2015 @12:20PM
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But the 4th does qualify with "unreasonable," and dragnets without "specific" suspicions are unreasonable and unconstitutional.
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Re:U.S. NSA domestic phone spying program illegal: appeals c...
by mikecb on Thursday May 07, 2015 @01:06PM
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Indeed, and there's where we need mosaic the most. As it stands, the collection of this type of data (Smith) is not even a search, and therefore the court does not even consider whether or not it was reasonable. It just stops there. If it were found to be a search, it might still come in, but perhaps for a different reason. There's a great cartoon, which contains this awesome flowchart: http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=2256