Last Sunday, privacy scholar and National Constitution Center President and Chief Executive Jeffrey Rosen opined that a constitutional amendment may be needed to “prohibit unreasonable searches and seizures of our persons and electronic effects, whether by the government or by private corporations like Google and AT&T.” But Adam Thierer, a senior research fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, disagrees. In this Privacy Perspectives post, Thierer explains why there “are several problems with Rosen’s proposal—legal, economic and practical” and writes “that better alternatives exist to deal with the privacy concerns he identifies.”
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