Whatever happened to our right to privacy?

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Second of a three-part series Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer thinks technology has outpaced freedom. He is certain the Fourth Amendment’s restriction on government intrusion is outdated.

He articulated this view Dec. 12, 2010, when he told Fox News’ Chris Wallace: “The Founders didn’t know that commerce included airplanes. They didn’t know about the Internet or even television. And so the difficult job in open cases where there is no clear answer is to take those values in this document, which all Americans hold, which do not change, and to apply them to a world that is ever changing.”

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