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We all have secrets, things we don’t want other people to know. How do we keep that thing secret, especially from the government? Most people think the Constitution protects our right to privacy, except it doesn’t. It protects us from unreasonable searches, which is not the same thing. Today, however, governments at all levels use this claim that the Fourth Amendment protects privacy rather than searches to spy on all of us.
This is evidenced by the recent statement by Senator Warner that the federal government is once again buddying up with social media, just in time to influence the upcoming election. Meanwhile, the Director of National Intelligence has just released a “framework” for government agencies to spy on the American people. If you think that the “secure” communications app you use will keep your data safe, a recent piece by Christopher Rufo also brings that into question.
There’s an old saying, I don’t know where it comes from, “Three people can keep a secret only if two of them are dead.” If we want to keep our secrets, our right not to be spied on, and our right to the consent of the governed, then We, the People, need to take responsibility for our secrets.
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