The beginning of all freedom....

[slackjawed]

"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom." -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas

What does this mean to you?

please discuss

 

[Ava]

"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom." -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas

What does this mean to you?

please discuss

It means the same thing to me as it does to the former judge of Superior Court of New Jersey, Andrew P. Napolitano, who has written many books on the Constitution.

SNIP:

The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was written in order to keep the government from invading the right to be left alone--today known as the right to privacy. The Framers who wrote the Constitution, and Jefferson and his colleagues who insisted on the Fourth amendment among others, had suffered grievously at the hands of the British king and his soldiers

SNIP:


On Thursday of this week, the U.S. Senate will be examining a set of proposals which could have profound implications for the future of privacy.

One proposal will allow federal agents to seize all digital data--even mere computer keystrokes as they are being executed--without a search warrant, and the alternate proposal will protect all digital data from government seizure by requiring search warrants as a precondition for seizing any of it.

Read more: Whatever happened to the right to be left alone? | Fox News

 

[slackjawed]

"They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone--the most prehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men." -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis (Olmstead v. U.S.)