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SocksCanClose on March 12, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Obama at SXSW: ‘Absolutist view’ on digital privac...

Does he mean you can't have an absolutist view of the 4th Amendment?

rayiner on March 12, 2016 [–]

The 4th amendment is by its very nature a compromise between safety and privacy. Otherwise it would say people had a right to be free from search and seizure, not "unreasonable search and seizure." And it wouldn't say anything about warrants.

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