Ed Perlmutter: “We each in this country, one of the very first principles that we have and one of the very first values that we hold…”

“We each in this country, one of the very first principles that we have and one of the very first values that we hold dearly is our privacy. Now it may not be that I don't have anything to hide, but I might not want the world to know that my daughter has epilepsy, which she does. Somebody else might not want to have somebody know that their child is failing in school, or that they are having marital problems. Who knows what it is? We in this country enjoy our privacy. It's something that is protected by the Constitution. And it may be that we haven't committed a crime, that what we have done isn't something that is going to be brought before a court, but it's something that is personal to us. We in this country enjoy that right. We enjoy that freedom not to have the government snoop into our lives unless there is really a reason. And that is why the courts are present.”