Monday, December 19, 2011

Terry Gross Interview

Facts/Details
1. Technology reveals our privacy
2. Jeffery Rossen wrote the Constitution 3.0
3. Constitution 3.0- a collection of essays of future technological developments that stress the Constitution
4. These essays show how the Constitution is out-dated
5. People do not need to give consent for the pictures being taken and posted on Google Maps
6. Google has also been under pressure from the government to remove terrorist videos from YouTube.
7. Ilmstead v. United States- court ruled that the 4th and 5th Amendment does not protect a defendant against having personal conversations wiretapped by federal agents.
8. The Patriot Act expanded the amount of surveillance the government could do without a warrant:
9. The Patriot Act was used towards border control
10. The amendments and the Constitution do not fully apply to the country's problem today.
Questions:
1. Should we change the Constitution to relate to the changes in the world?
2. What can we do to protect privacy?
3. Is any action being taken or passed to protect privacy?
4. Is the privacy of the government involved at all?
5. Is the Patriot Act a good thing?

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