Saturday, August 15, 2015

DAILY DOSE: HILLARY'S EMAIL


Hillary's Email Server
Privacy concerns over partisan politics. 

Lately it seems several parties in the government are overly concerned with the content on Hillary's private email server.

How 'bout we leave Hillary's god damn private email alone?  
How 'bout we mind our own god damn business? 

Nobody would dream of demanding to read Hillary's United States Postal Mail, nor would the government or any workplace, employer dream of demanding to be privy to every communication received by the USPS.  Nor do I believe it's ethical to demand any access to anything she has sent through the same medium as private correspondence.

So why then do some feel entitled to her electronic communications?  If we were to act ethically, we would leave her private email alone, regardless of it's content or what we thought might be contained therein, unless we had solid proof or probable cause to believe otherwise.

And NO, being in a sensitive government position doesn't entitle ANYONE to have access to her private emails for any purpose unless they have solid proof or probable cause of wrongdoing.  This is very basic Fourth Amendment ethics along with the reasonable expectation of privacy that goes along with it.

I would also add that in my general opinion, perhaps pertaining more to workplaces in the private sector and in corporate entities, someone's work email along with their other electronic activities should ethically be considered private.  Just because every keystroke can be recorded, every action closely monitored doesn't mean it should.  Don't even get me started on people getting fired over Facebook posts, I could write a book on why you're the worse kind of S.O.B for doing that to people.
Does the fourth Amendment need to evolve to meet the current times?  
I'm referring to the particular section of the 4th Amendment describing the right for people to be secure in their "papers, and effects".  (i.e. emails and Cell Phone, Tablet, Computer communication)

The span of the history and how sending correspondence has evolved: 

  • Personal Courier by Horse 
  • United States Postal Service 
  • Electronic Email 

Obviously as we have evolved beyond the need to use paper anymore, we should expand the 4th Amendment to match the same privacy we enjoyed with earlier forms of communication.    


The 4th Amendment 
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

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