Do we need an explicit privacy Constitutional Amendment?

[hootinholler]

Since the courts have ruled that even communications handed to a third party are not covered by the 4th and we rely on wiretap laws for that, do we need an explicit enumeration of the right to privacy in our communications?

I'm beginning to think we do, but I wonder how much support there would be for such a thing.

What would it look like? Should it also cover tracking people? It would need to be generic enough so that technology can't worm around it.

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[kestrel91316]

1. We also need an Equal Rights Amendment that applies to women AND LGBTs.

We'll never get either.

[Orsino]

2. Yes, but do we need to waste years trying to move it through Republican legislatures? n/t

[RC]

3. We already have one.

It, along with several other sections of the US Constitution, are being ignored.

Article IV

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.

Does any one have a copy of any of these secret warrants, issued by a secret court, whose members have been appointed by John Roberts in secret?
I mean a PDF copy of the original, not someone's interpretation of what they think it says. Although an jpeg interpretation would/could be humorous.

[hootinholler]

4. I thought the post published one of them

BTW that's the fourth amendment not Article IV.

The 4th has not protected us, since the courts have ruled that giving communications to a third party for delivery means there is no expectation of protection by the 4th.