{"id":5901,"date":"2014-05-17T06:52:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T12:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5901"},"modified":"2014-05-17T06:52:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T12:52:34","slug":"how-privacy-became-an-american-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5901","title":{"rendered":"How privacy became an American value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/ideas\/2014\/05\/17\/how-privacy-became-american-value\/fVrcUTX0h2M39HcjOtBbIN\/story.html\">Ted Widmer<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI BECOME A TRANSPARENT EYE-BALL,\u201d Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, in the most famous sentence of \u201cNature.\u201d In an age of constant surveillance, that image has taken on a sinister new meaning. Transparent eyeballs regard us everywhere we go\u2014from cameras perched above intersections, in building lobbies, and from our phones and laptops, which watch us as much as we watch them.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;For those who worry about this oppressively bright light on our activities, the Fourth Amendment offers some shade, with its clear language against \u201cunreasonable searches and seizures,\u201d and its promise that Americans have the right \u201cto be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects.\u201d Lately, judges and attorneys have been scrutinizing those words, seeking to establish just how much privacy they grant us. On April 29, two cases reached the Supreme Court, asking whether the Fourth Amendment limits the right of the police to seize a cellphone from a suspect. As our lives become ever more visible to the transparent eyeballs of the future (including\u2014yikes\u2014drones disguised as birds and insects), the Fourth Amendment will stand at the center of the controversy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Widmer: \u201cI BECOME A TRANSPARENT EYE-BALL,\u201d Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, in the most famous sentence of \u201cNature.\u201d In an age of constant surveillance, that image has taken on a sinister new meaning. Transparent eyeballs regard us everywhere we go\u2014from cameras perched above intersections, in building lobbies, and from our phones and laptops, which watch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5902,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions\/5902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}