Privacy Amendment to the Constitution

[NoodleyAppendage]

Do you think DU could be a breeding ground for a grassroots movement to amend the Consitution to secure our personal privacy? The following is a work in progress...please feel free to amend or edit as needed. Hopefully we can have a working document by the end of this thread.


Every citizen of the United States has the right to privacy in his actions, person, associations, records, communications, and transactions. No branch of government and no person or entity within the United States government or the government of any state within the United States, whether in time of peace or in time of war, may violate the right to privacy of any American citizen without a warrant issued upon a judicial determination of probable cause that the United States citizen has committed a felony. Any individual for whom a warrant permitting an invasion of privacy is issued must be provided with a copy of the warrant and all information upon which it is based within one year of the issuance of the warrant unless charged with a felony within one year of the issuance of the warrant.

Private businesses shall not be allowed to discriminate against current or potential employees who refuse to have monitoring devices implanted in his/her person. If implanted, tagged employees will have full access to tracking records and be provided a copy of said tracking records upon request and in writing.

-JDPriestly (w/ some changes of my own, JB)

[alfredo]

1. Need to add foreign governments, person or enity working

at the request of or as agents of the US government, person or enity. Our government, or others, could outsource their snooping to foreigners. Citizen is defined as a human, not a corporation.

[NoodleyAppendage]

6. Good point! The British & New Zealanders use Eschelon to spy on us.

This outsourced snooping has been going on for years.

JB

[alfredo]

7. I'm not sure if it is foreigners at those sites unless

there is a mix of US and foreign working the site. I doubt the NSA would want foreigners near their data.
"There are no allies, there are only enemies and potential enemies."

[RC]

2. With all the amendments to the Constitution being proposed

it will read like the Sunday paper.

Come on now. Just apply the Constitution as written and declare unconstitutional any and all laws that interfere with what our Constitution clearly says.

[NoodleyAppendage]

5. Does the current Constitution cover RFID device implantation?

Tracking technologies are already starting to work their way into the workplace, in which case soon many will be faced with the choice of being tagged like cattle or not having the job they seek.

JB

[LiberalPartisan]

3. Nice coincidence

I was just mulling this over these last few days. Such an amendment also ought to address the issue of identity theft as a violation of a right to privacy, with special attention paid to the trafficking in personal information. EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) has a good overview of the EU law here: http://www.epic.org/privacy/intl/data_retention.html


As a reminder, the process of amending the Constitution is as follows:

To Propose Amendments

1. Two-thirds of both houses of Congress vote to propose an amendment
   
2. Two-thirds of the state legislatures ask Congress to call a national convention to propose amendments. (This approach has never been used.)
   

To Ratify Amendments

1. Three-fourths of the state legislatures approve it
   
2. Ratifying conventions in three-fourths of the states approve it. This method was used only once -- to ratify the 21st Amendment (repealing Prohibition).
   

[NoodleyAppendage]

4. I suspect ratification would be the problem...Red State Ignorance

JB

[alfredo]

8. I think the average bubba wouldn't want Uncle Sugar or the

local Wal Mart manager knowing his business. It's the politician and the capitalist who would stop it.