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Jan 18, 2017

This week, Note to Self gets in our time machine, back to the court cases that brought privacy from the founding fathers to Google Docs. Stories of bookies on the Sunset Strip, microphones taped to phone booths, and a 1975 Monte Carlo. And where the Fourth Amendment needs to go, now that were living in the future.

The amendmentdoesnt mention privacy once. But those 54 little words, written more than 200 years ago, are a crucial battleground in todays fight over our digital rights. That one sentenceis why the government cant listen to your phone calls without a warrant. And its why they dont need one to find out who youre calling.

But now, we share our deepest thoughts with Google, through what we search for and what we email. And we share our most intimate conversations with Alexa, when we talk in its vicinity. So how does the Fourth Amendment apply when were surrounded by technology the Founding Fathers could never dream of?

With Laura Donohue, director of Georgetowns Center on Privacy and Technology. Supreme Court audio from the wonderful Oyez.org, under a Creative Commons license.

If you want to visit a phone booth, there are four leftin New York City. They're all on West End Avenue, and there's even a kids bookabout them.

The tech show about being human. Hosted by Manoush Zomorodi. Produced by WNYC.

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