Monday, December 19, 2011

Interpreting the Constitution in the Digital Era

facts:
1. None of the existing amendments give clear answers to the most basic questions people have today.
2. We can't only rely on judges enforcing the existing Constitution to protect the values that the Framers took for granted.
3. We can be permanently tarred for one mistake we made on the Internet. 
4. There's a bill pending in Congress right now that is a bipartisan geolocational privacy bill.
5. There is no expectation of privacy on the street in the US.
6. The United States v. Jones Supreme Court case is considering whether or not policemen need a warrant from a judge before attaching a secret GPS monitor to a car to track a suspect around the clock. 
7. An argument is the 4th Amendment only bans searches without warrants in private spaces and the GPS is an extension of human surveillance. 
8. Rosen believes the GPS case has the potential to be the most important privacy case of the decade. 
9. Google has been under pressure from the US government to remove terrorist videos from Youtube.
10. Twitter was pressured to remove pro-Taliban tweets


Questions:
1. Will the internet ever be completely censored by the government?
2. Will this negatively or positively affect social networking sites?
3. Is anything protected when you put it up on the internet?
4. Who watches the public monitors?
5. Should it be a violation to monitor people in public?

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