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Government surveillance
Little peepers everywhere
America’s laws governing digital and mobile surveillance are an unholy mess
SAN FRANCISCO AND WASHINGTON, DC
IN FEBRUARY 1928 the Supreme Court heard the case of Roy Olmstead, whose conviction on bootlegging charges relied on evidence obtained by tapping his phones. Olmstead contended that this violated the fourth amendment, which protects against “unreasonable searches and seizures”. The court disagreed: it held that the fourth amendment protected Olmstead’s person, home and office, but that telephone wires “are not part of his house or office any more than the highways along which they are stretched.”
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