Hidden Microphones Part of Government Surveillance Program in the Bay Area
> If you're going to conduct criminal activity, do it in the privacy of your own home.<p>> <i></i>That was the original intention of the 4th amendment.<i></i><p>Wat.<p>The intention of the 4th amendment was to enable criminal activity, but confine it to private property?<p>Not to protect citizens' privacy from government snooping without probable cause?<p>The intent was to prevent the executive branch from indiscriminately "searching" (and hidden microphones are a form of search) innocent people without any cross-check from the judicial branch. The fact that you can "conduct criminal activity in the privacy of your own home" is a side effect, not a design goal, of the principle that a free society is worth the risk of letting a few criminals slip through the cracks.