Fourth_Amendment

Fourth Amendment As we enter the 21st Century, citizens find the very notion of privacy under almost relentless assault. Random suspicionless taking and testing of body fluids proliferates on ever more flimsy grounds; motor vehicle departments sell information about those who are forced to give it in order to obtain driver’s licenses; banks use private account information for other purposes and provide it to other related entities; when a consumer visits a website, a spy is placed in his computer; it has become easier to invade homes without knocking and giving notice; and on and on. In this climate, it is easy to develop callouses on our sense of privacy. Perhaps it even seems quaint to worry much about the sanctity of a home where we can speak, listen, read, write and think in privacy. Perhaps it seems even more quaint to worry about “a probationer’s home which, like anyone else’s, is protected by the Fourth Amendment’s requirement that searches be reasonable.” (Griffin v. Wisconsin, supra, 483 U.S. at p. 873.) We now reiterate searches, privacy, parolee, home, even, about, worry, warrantless, suspicionless, seems, result, quaint, perhaps, information, friends, fourth, find, diminished, controls, become, write, without, wisconsin, willing, whom, website, visits, very, vehicle, under, think, therefore, themselves, testing, taking