In a nutshell, Judge Kozinski and Ms. Grace concluded that American consumers have killed the expectation of privacy with use of store club cards, smart phones, and online shopping. I contend that despite the advance of technology, human beings still have as much need for some measure of privacy today as they did in 1789
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January 17, 2012 Real News Top constitutional law expert Jon Turley notes in a must-read Washington Post article called “We are no longer the land of the free” (I have edited slightly to remove parentheses in several places): Americans often proclaim our nation as a symbol of freedom to the world while dismissing nations such
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The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security on Tuesday partnered with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and several other federal and state agencies for a safety enforcement and awareness operation on Tennessee’s interstates and two metropolitan-area bus stations. They are randomly inspecting vehicles on highways in Tennessee. The random inspections really aren’t any more thorough normal,
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