Terry Gross Interview

Facts/Details:

1. Terry Goss is a Law professor at George Washington University.
2. None of the existing amendments give answers to the basic questions we have today.
3. We should have no expectation of privacy in public.
4. There is a difference between short term and long term surveillance.
5. Most of the technology already exists for Facebook to track using open planet.
6. Lawyers at Facebook, Microsoft, Google, etc have more power over govt/constitution.
7. There have been efforts to propose a meaningful privacy commission in America.
8. There are people at Google, Facebook, and Twitter that have more control over privacy/free speech than the courts do.
9. Justice Scalia determined that the use of thermal imaging technology outside of the house was an invasion of privacy.
10. Jurors give more weight to the pictures of the brain than other evidence.

Questions:

1. How can we find a basic precedent for privacy issues online if the founding fathers couldnt have even dreamed of the technology today.
2. Have there been any cases decided about privacy in public?
3. How do lawyers of google, facebook, etc have more power?
4. Will there most likely be an amendment made addressing online privacy issues?
5. Does probable cause ever come into play for example in the thermal imaging case?