Opinion | FBI illegally accessed Americans’ communications 278,000 times last year WashTimesOpEd
conform to and abide by the restraints imposed upon them by the Constitution they have sworn to uphold.The Fourth Amendment, which was written in the aftermath of British soldiers searching Colonial homes with general warrants — search where you please and seize what you wish — serves two values. The first is privacy, and the second is restraint upon the government.
In protecting privacy in the Fourth Amendment, James Madison, the drafter of the Bill of Rights, was determined to prevent the new American government from doing to Americans what the British had done to the colonists. This warrant requirement protects all people — good, bad, Americans, foreigners, people the government hates and fears — from the violation of their privacy. Surveillance is a search for and seizure of data from or about a person, and all searches and seizures can lawfully be done only via a warrant.
The warrant itself must specifically describe the place to be searched or the person or thing to be seized.
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