{"id":3463,"date":"2010-04-20T07:23:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T11:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3463"},"modified":"2010-04-20T07:23:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T11:23:43","slug":"americans-eroded-right-to-be-free-from-invasive-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/americans-eroded-right-to-be-free-from-invasive-searches\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans&#8217; eroded right to be free from invasive searches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JPBarlow\" target=\"_blank\">John Perry Barlow<\/a> shared a link to this <em>Washington Times<\/em> editorial, which clearly illustrates how the US federal government has managed to undermine Americans&#8217; right to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/apr\/18\/tsa-to-download-your-itunes\/\" target=\"_blank\">privacy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Federal security workers are now free to snoop through more than just your undergarments and luggage at the airport. Thanks to a recent series of federal court decisions, the digital belongings of international fliers are now open for inspection. This includes reading the saved e-mails on your laptop, scanning the address book on your iPhone or BlackBerry and closely scrutinizing your digital vacation snapshots.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the more common confiscations of dangerous Evian bottles and fingernail clippers, these searches are not being done in the name of safety. The digital seizures instead are part of a disturbing trend of federal agencies using legal gimmicks to sidestep Fourth Amendment constitutional protections. This became clear in an April 8 court ruling that found admissible the evidence obtained by officials who had peeped at a passenger&#8217;s laptop files at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t you guys fight a war a couple of hundred years back over the 18th century equivalent of this kind of thing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Perry Barlow shared a link to this Washington Times editorial, which clearly illustrates how the US federal government has managed to undermine Americans&#8217; right to privacy: Federal security workers are now free to snoop through more than just your undergarments and luggage at the airport. Thanks to a recent series of federal court decisions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,13],"tags":[109,98,217],"class_list":["post-3463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-liberty","category-usa","tag-computers","tag-police","tag-rights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-TR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3464,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions\/3464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}