On the recordMay 20, 2015
I am not sure I understand the question, but I do believe as to the court case right now, the way it stands--if the USA FREEDOM Act had passed last year, I think there was a chance that it might have made the court case moot because it would have said that Congress has already acted and Congress now has given an authority for a variation of this and Congress already fixed the problem. So there is a part of me that would like to see the appellate court case go up to the Supreme Court. It has been remanded to a lower court so I don't know if it is ever getting there. But we ultimately have some questions in our country that won't be decided until we have a Supreme Court case. One of those questions is, Do papers have to be physical and in your house? What if they are digital and lodged somewhere else? Do you have any right of privacy, any Fourth Amendment protection at all for records that are held somewhere else? The current legal opinion doesn't really give any protection to third-party records. I think that needs to be fixed, because technology has made it such that our records are no longer going to be real records that you can hold in your hand. I think almost all of our records will be virtual and held in space somewhere, and I think you still have to have a personal privacy protection in those.
