With today’s technology, I have been wondering where our privacy rights stand within our own homes. From my research, the lack of privacy is profound and would shock many. Privacy, to say the least, is dead.
The Fourth Amendment as follows: 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.
Justice Harlan in Katz v. United States (1967) explained: Thus, a man’s home is, for most purposes, a place where he expects privacy , but objects, activities, or statements that he exposes in the “plain view” of outsiders are not “protected,” because no intention to keep them to himself has been exhibited. On the other hand, conversations in the open would not be protected against being overheard, for the expectation of privacy under circumstances would be unreasonable.1
1U.S. Constitution for Dummies by Dr. Michael Arnheim
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