Fear the Future (non-robotic edition)

Remember that whole fourth amendment thing? May as well forget about it now.  I had never considered that it didn't cover third party info, but can now see that was a GLARING oversight on my part.

The problem, at least constitutionally speaking, is that the Fourth Amendment protects only what we reasonably expect to keep private. One facet of this rule, known as the third party doctrine, is that we don’t have reasonable expectations of privacy in things we’ve already revealed to other people or the public…

With so little left private, the Fourth Amendment is all but obsolete. Where police officers once needed a warrant to search your bookshelf for “Atlas Shrugged,” they can now simply ask Amazon.com if you bought it. Where police needed probable cause before seizing your day planner, they can now piece together your whereabouts from your purchases, cellphone data and car’s GPS. Someday soon we’ll realize that we’ve lost everything we once cherished as private.

Fuck. Fuck-fuck-fuckity-fuck. Shit-damn-balls.