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US intel official: The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to robots searching your emails
Yahoo Inc’s secret scanning of customer emails at the behest of a U.S. spy agency is part of a growing push by officials to loosen constitutional protections Americans have against arbitrary governmental searches, according to legal documents and people briefed on closed court hearings.
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Fortunately, US Intel officials don't have the last say on interpreting things like laws and the constitution. We have judges for that.
Ish.
Exactly. Anyone who is still believing in the separation of powers and in constitutional rights has been living under a rock or is willingly delusional. We're in what's possibly the most sophisticated authoritarian regime in history, and it's only going to get worse.
It would be interesting to have an AI deep dive into this question. it may be that there is a new set of legal parameters...and it may require robotic (AI) solutions to enforce.