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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yep. We need a very strict law to prevent the government from partnering with private companies to get around the fourth amendment. The third party doctrine has obliterated our privacy rights.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Agreed. If there's anything we should collectively push for, it's a constitutional recognition to a right to privacy. That's what Roe v Wade was based on, and it was overturned because it wasn't constitutionally defensible. The 4th amendment sadly isn't sufficient, we need to take it a step further.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Ninth Amendment, if actually followed, would put the burden on the government to prove that something was not a right, rather than just denying it because it wasn't enumerated in the Constitution. The current Supreme Court has directly contradicted the Ninth by claiming that only enumerated rights are really rights. Except when they make up new ones like corporate personhood.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I wish that was the case. But no, we apparently need to be explicit with the Supreme Court.