{"id":17522,"date":"2015-06-03T06:39:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T11:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17522"},"modified":"2015-06-03T06:39:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T11:39:06","slug":"wapo-surveillance-reform-without-the-fourth-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17522","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Surveillance reform without the Fourth Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2015\/06\/03\/surveillance-reform-without-the-fourth-amendment\/\">Surveillance reform without the Fourth Amendment<\/a> by Orin Kerr: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Don\u2019t overlook one key feature of surveillance reform and the passage of the USA Freedom Act: It came from legislation, not the Fourth Amendment. A court had wrongly allowed the bulk surveillance program that Congress had not actually authorized. When the public became aware of the program, Congress restricted the program by passing a new law.<\/p>\n<p>Note what wasn\u2019t a significant influence on the reform: the Fourth Amendment. All but one of the judges who ruled on the issue concluded that the Fourth Amendment wasn\u2019t implicated by the bulk telephony metadata law. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Surveillance reform without the Fourth Amendment by Orin Kerr: Don\u2019t overlook one key feature of surveillance reform and the passage of the USA Freedom Act: It came from legislation, not the Fourth Amendment. A court had wrongly allowed the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17522\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17523,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17522\/revisions\/17523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}