We need to do more to safeguard the rights of free speech and assembly under the First Amendment, the right to privacy under the Fourth Amendment, and the right of equal protection under the law under the Fourteenth Amendment.
Cummings calls for stronger protections of constitutional rights in the context of surveillance.
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