Privacy rights and pinpoint surveillance: the TWAIN meet

Link: Privacy rights and pinpoint surveillance: the TWAIN meet.   What happens when technology advances so far that privacy becomes impossible? How does the legal system protect the right to privacy when technology can invade privacy without detection? These questions will dominate the legal debate over the right of U.S. citizens to personal privacy for decades. What must lawyers know when thinking about these issues? The tech person in me loves gadgets and high tech, and the wonderful things technology can accomplish. The lawyer in me is wary of the use of technology to violate long-held beliefs in personal privacy. Is privacy an outdated concept, given the ability of Governments to spy from satellites in the sky? The "expectation of privacy" argument will likely frame legal disputes over the permitted use of technology to invade the privacy of citizens. In other words, the Government will be prohibited from using the technology in situations where the Courts hold that citizens have the "expectation of privacy". That standard of course, shifts like the sands of time, as the case highlighted in the linked article shows.