Bob Goodlatte: “The original intent being that which is held to be yours and reasonably expected to be for privacy must be returned to…”

Right, but the sale of the information to the government puts the government in the picture as well and the Fourth Amendment is directed at the government not obtaining information without showing probable cause, without providing a…

For all the reasons cited by my distinguished colleagues, yes.

I think a great first step would be to pass the Fourth Amendment's Not For Sale Act that's been introduced by Chair Nadler.

I think the PATRIOT Act went off track in not defining some of the areas that set parameters around government gathering data.