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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
"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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Yes it is disturbing. The last 12 years have been especially troubling, not just from the erosion put into law by Congress, the Executive Branch, and the Supreme Court, but also what seems to be growing indifference to it all among the American public.