Foreword
The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution reads: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause …."Government surveillance of private citizens has been the subject of controversy since the early days of the Republic, but especially as new technologies have made it easier to discover personal information without performing a traditional physical search of properties or possessions. Wiretapping immediately began creating challenges for the application of the Fourth Amendment when it was invented almost simultaneously with…
