Sunday, January 30, 2011

Data Privacy and the 4th Amendment

Piggybacking off the previous post (the need for data privacy) the way we conceive of the 4th Amendment needs to be reviewed. In the 18th Century your papers and other vital information were stored in your house and government officials would have to enter your house and physically seize the papers.

Today your vital papers are stored at your bank(s), your credit card companies, your employer, doctor's offices, internet service providers and numerous others. The government having access to this information should be as difficult to get as the permission to enter your house and take the information from your office.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

I worry more about insurance companies having your personal information. Electronic medical records will invade every aspect of our lives and make the government intrusion secondary

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