{"id":10164,"date":"2014-01-07T15:56:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T15:56:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T15:56:48","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10164","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Technology? Some justices want to keep distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/technology\/technology-some-justices-want-to-keep-a-distance\/2014\/01\/07\/604f147a-77ce-11e3-a647-a19deaf575b3_story.html\">Technology? Some justices want to keep distance<\/a> by AP:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 At the Supreme Court, technology can be regarded as a necessary evil, and sometimes not even necessary.<\/p>\n<p>When the justices have something to say to each other in writing, they never do it by email. Their courthouse didn\u2019t even have a photocopying machine until 1969, a few years after \u201cXerox\u201d had become a verb.<\/p>\n<p>So as the legal fight over the NSA\u2019s high-tech collection of telephone records moves through the court system, possibly en route to the Supreme Court, some justices already are on record as saying they should be wary about taking on major questions of technology and privacy.<\/p>\n<p>As Justice Elena Kagan understated last summer, \u201cThe justices are not necessarily the most technologically sophisticated people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10164\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}