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That's why we need a privacy amendment to the constitution.

The constitution already protects privacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut

The government tries to violate the spirit of the constitution all the time. It will just require a supreme court ruling banning mass surveillance via licence plate scanning. Even then, I'm sure various LEAs will try to worm their way around the ruling.

The supreme court also once ruled that black people could not be citizens and had no standing to sue in court. That's the problem of depending on interpretation. If a right to privacy is important, it should be explicit.

Don't forget to leave it open for mega-business to track whatever the f*ck they want. Government is evil, but Google and Facebook are saints of commerce that do no evil :/

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