Reasonable Expectations of Privacy are Now Only Imaginary Concepts

By John Farnam

Opinion

Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- “Where there is secrecy, corruption is never far behind” ~ Shipp

“Privacy,” an obsolete concept!

Last week, Supreme Court Chief Justice John G Roberts Jr, writing a majority opinion, said:

“We decline to grant the state unrestricted access to a wireless carrier’s database of physical location information.”

This represents a major (but mostly meaningless) decision on “digital privacy” (which is mostly nonexistent).

Our government now generally needs a warrant to collect location data about customers of cellphone companies. This decision also has implications for other kinds of personal information held by third parties, including email and text messages, internet searches, as well as bank and credit-card records.

However, it was a narrow (5 to 4) decision, and it will doubtless be challenged (read that: “ignored”) by entrenched and insulated federal bureaucracies, who consider themselves “beyond inquiry.”

The term, “reasonable expectation of privacy,” so often used in the past by justices writing majority opinions, is now deceased, and has been for some time.

It is today completely “unreasonable” for any of us to expect any species of “privacy,” in any circumstance!

“Privacy?” There is no such thing, so a “reasonable expectation” of it is …Read the Rest

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