26-06-2014, 07:12 PM
Supreme Court Justice William Douglass compared broadcasting to public speech. There is no debate among lawmakers that the government has the right to regulate the public use of airwaves. A necessary part to the power to regulate the use, has to be the power to monitor its use.
The constitutional right to privacy depends a great deal upon a "reasonable expectation of privacy." Truly, in an age when you know all these providers monitor and record your use (to sell you stuff), when you knowingly activate GPS devices, and when you ask the closest cell phone towers to monitor your location, and when you talk out loud into a cell phone in a public place, how much privacy can you REASONABLY expect?
Just like riding in a car, where you have a lesser reasonable expectation of privacy than in your home, you cannot reasonably expect total privacy when you deliberately access the multimedia world. Just where the Supremes will draw the line in the sand is still an open question, but it will be closer to "no privacy at all" than it would if you were using a public phone booth.
The constitutional right to privacy depends a great deal upon a "reasonable expectation of privacy." Truly, in an age when you know all these providers monitor and record your use (to sell you stuff), when you knowingly activate GPS devices, and when you ask the closest cell phone towers to monitor your location, and when you talk out loud into a cell phone in a public place, how much privacy can you REASONABLY expect?
Just like riding in a car, where you have a lesser reasonable expectation of privacy than in your home, you cannot reasonably expect total privacy when you deliberately access the multimedia world. Just where the Supremes will draw the line in the sand is still an open question, but it will be closer to "no privacy at all" than it would if you were using a public phone booth.
"All that is necessary for tyranny to succeed is for good men to do nothing." (unknown)
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."