The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."Although it has been quite a long time since December 15, 1791 when the amendment was ratified, it is clear to make the connection between a person's papers and digital data. For all intents and purposes, a person's digital property is a subset of their papers.
If the NSA is performing automatic searches and seizures on millions of American citizen's papers then the agency is surely violating our right against unreasonable search and seizure. It is easy to understand how foreign targets are acceptable to search in this manner because they don't have the rights that American citizens have. As I have highlighted in my past posts, it more likely that you will be targeted by the NSA's data mining algorithms than not. Your fourth amendment right is likely to be violated and you shouldn't be happy about it.
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