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New law review article: "Pervasive Surveillance and the Future of the Fourth Amendment"

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Pervasive Surveillance and the Future of the Fourth Amendment, by Russell D. Covey, 80 Miss. L. J. No. 4 (2010): Abstract: We are in a period of intense technological change. The continued explosive growth in technology has two major effects on the scope and application of the Fourth Amendment. First, the diffusion of powerful new technologies like DNA synthesis and high-powered computing makes it far easier than ever before for ill-meaning groups or individuals to obtain powerful and destructive weapons. Regardless of who is perceived to desire such weapons, the very existence and potential use of such weapons poses a permanent and growing threat to national security. Second, with the development of new technologies, governments are finding it increasingly cheap and easy to conduct intrusive surveillance on their populations and to obtain data and information about individuals in quantities and in detail never before imagined...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on August 30, 2010 (boomark / email).