... as a part of overturning the damaging effects of Citizen's United.
The PTB probably know that if Citizen's United and corporate personhood are overturned by constitutional amendment or whatever other means, and it is not carefully worded enough, that corporations like Google will throw up their hands and say something like "Well now that we're no longer persons, we can no longer use our corporate right to privacy to protect us from the government coming in and looking at all of our data." which many of them are probably hoping that many of those of us who are also against domestic spying might break away from the overturn Citizen's United movement if they feel their personal data on these servers is more victim to government spying then, and pit these two efforts against each other to try and split the voting populace to maintain their control over us with the corporate corrupted government still in charge.
It is important that if we redefine the fourth amendment to encompass the internet properly, that we define that the owners of the private data being held on servers such as Googles is OURS to protect and find a means that allows these businesses to do business and still protect the privacy of us as citizen's data that we provide to them as a part of doing business on their sites without them having to claim that corporate personhood is a necessary element to protect OUR private information there.
If we update the fourth amendment, we really need a separate technical committee/organization that's accountable directly to us to help shape how the rules are set up so that it can't be corrupted by the corporate 1% leadership and have any constitutional amendment (either to update the 4th amendment, or to overturn Citizen's United) work for us and not for the 1%. It needs to be worded simply so that it doesn't need constant modification in a changing world, but strongly so that it can't be manipulated to work against us as things change down the road as well.
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