> Thus, there is nothing in our founding documents that address > this issue. Today, it's getting to the point where personal privacy is
> the exception rather than the rule, and our elected officials are
> using the principles in the founding documents to justify eliminating
> what little privacy we have left. Fundamentally, there is an
> assumption of a citizen's right to privacy in our constitution, but none
> exists in fact other than how it might be circumscribed by other
> provisions.
I largely concur as long as some of the objections raised today can be
answered, such as how to take encryption away from terrorists who already
have it.