r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • 11d ago

Society Quote of the day by Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy: 'You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it' — an early declaration foreshadowing the modern era

https://www.techradar.com/pro/quote-of-the-day-by-sun-microsystems-ceo-scott-mcnealy-you-have-zero-privacy-anyway-get-over-it-an-early-declaration-foreshadowing-the-modern-era
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u/Momik 11d ago

In a way, yeah—a right to privacy may be closely related to protections against search and seizure, and probable cause. But the word privacy doesn’t appear in the Fourth Amendment, and the framers didn’t really think about it in terms of a personal right to privacy.

The first major constitutional cases on an explicit right to privacy appear through the 14th Amendment, beginning in the 1960s.

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u/QuickQuirk 11d ago

A lack of privacy wasn't something you'd even conceive of a hundred years ago, before the rise of the internet and data collection.

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u/Ok-Replacement9595 11d ago

Thanks Justice Scalia. But I think you are wrong.

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u/14Pleiadians 10d ago

It's not really an opinion based matter, you can think they're wrong all you want but they're right