The vast majority of DU supports Snowden's and Greenwald's actions

[JDPriestly]

147. But corporate America is not bound by the Constitution to respect your rights.

We can pass a law that would prohibit corporate America from invading our privacy if we want to. Might be a good idea. I think that corporate America should have to get our consent before they use any of our private information. I'm not on Facebook or Linked In or any of those sites because I do value my privacy. I joined a few knitting sites. That's about it.

I value my privacy. The Fourth Amendment is very clear. Here it is:

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.

http://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment4/amendment.html

It prohibits the government from violating our right to privacy. It is very clear.

Collecting our metadata and analyzing it with powerful computers is a violation of our right to be secure in our persons, houses, papers and effects.

The Fourth Amendment is quite clear. Of course, the Founding Fathers did not have computers or telephones so we have to apply it to the technology of our time. Houses, papers and effects --- it isn't just about your house. It is also about our writings and the things we own. It applies also to our telephone calls. The old decision that held that law enforcement could, in the course of an investigation, obtain our pen registers, the lists of phone numbers with which we communicated, would I think be distinguished from what the NSA is doing on a massive basis today.

Lose your Fourth Amendment right to privacy and you have lost nearly all the other rights you have under our Bill of Rights.