&gt; So your contribution to this discussion<p>&gt; it&#x27;s unlikely to bear heavily on this discussion either.<p>Why so much snark anytime someone disagrees with you?<p>&gt; If the 5th Amendment doesn&#x27;t protect your personal diary --- and it doesn&#x27;t --- and it doesn&#x27;t prevent the government from wiretapping your phone<p>You&#x27;re interpretation is flat out wrong. Let me quote a few sections for you:<p>&gt; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself<p>Seizing someone&#x27;s electronic communications certainly does make a great witness against oneself, especially when the communications were seized without a warrant.<p>&gt; nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law<p>Again, seizing communications en masse without a warrant for each communication is expressly against even the most rootementary interpretation of the 5th Amendment. There is no due process of law here. In fact, we know some people are in prison thanks to Parallel Construction - the exact opposite of due process.