What would you do? And an observation about 'crime' in the 21st century

[Agnosticsherbet]

6. This is not 1800 and the technology isn't the same.

Concepts of privacy should be enshrined in law, not extended in theory from a system that could not even conceive of a modern internet.

In fact, the government must jump through far more hoops to open your mail, bug your phone, or use a laser on your window to listen in on your conversations. A private conversation at home has an expectation of privacy as does the letter. A phone call to your sister down the street is treated different from one to a mosque in Istanbul. The government can look at any of those by going through the appropriate courts and getting a court to authorize it. As a society we have not tried in any systematic way to define privacy, where it can be expected and where it can't. There have been a number of cases that touch on that, but no holistic approach.

Every day people share prescriptions even though it is clearly illegal. When we discuss doing something illegal we should not do it where there is no expectation of privacy.