{"id":9359,"date":"2013-08-29T07:21:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T07:21:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T07:21:13","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9359","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Sun: A farewell to privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore Sun: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/opinion\/bs-ed-privacy-20130828,0,4547238.story#ixzz2dM8MpWVd\n\">A farewell to privacy<\/a> by Alexander E. Hooke:<\/p>\n<p>In the name of ever-increasing security, we are giving up an essential component of democracy<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1791, the Fourth Amendment \u2014 sanctifying what we now call the human right to privacy \u2014 became part of the Bill of Rights. Barely had the ink of the signatures dried when it was already threatened by government. Congress immediately planned to take a census of the newly established country&#8217;s population, only to be met by numerous citizens resisting officials poking their heads onto their property and asking about their children, size of home, how many males and females were over the age of 16.<\/p>\n<p>More than two centuries later, the right to privacy continues to be threatened and violated. While the focus has changed from physical space and home life to information and data about everyone&#8217;s behavior and contacts, invasion of privacy might be the only government action that enjoys ongoing bipartisan support. It hardly matters whether the president is Republican or Democrat, or whether Congress is run by conservatives or liberals, as they always find reasons to suspect and spy on their own citizens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9359\">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-9359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359","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=9359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}