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"For the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places. What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection. But what he seeks to preserve as private, even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected."
Justice Stewart in his majority opinion in Katz v US
I'm teaching a class on the 4th Amendment right now and it is really jarring to literally watch the erosion of the protection through the timeline of the cases.
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