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Are you deliberately being facetious? The Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution reads:What else is protected that isn't mentioned? A nice pair of suede boots? Free education? Lakefront property? What needs to be mentioned in it and what doesn't?
I would think any human capable of rational thought should be able to make the judgment that privacy is protected.Constitution said:The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
It is true that no right is absolute, but that doesn't mean that said right should be disregarded entirely. If a judge issues a warrant based on probable cause to search through someone's computer and phone data, I'm fine with that, as that constitutes a reasonable and lawful violation of the right to privacy in order to ensure the security of our society.Anyway, it's beside the point: freedom of speech is in the Bill of Rights and it's protected, but we still don't assume that means literally any speech at any time.
Regardless, the government storing metadata that Verizon already has but will eventually throwaway isn't some horrible Nazi-esque moment anyway.
I don't think it's a big deal either; I just don't like it. This isn't some Orwellian scheme where the NSA's actually monitoring what we're doing, it's just the collection of private data without our consent to be sieved through in case any useful information turns up. That's not North Korea, but it's still unpleasant and unnecessary.