Beyond Search & Seizure | Jeffrey Rosen | TEDxPhiladelphia

Ubiquitous surveillance is threatening American values of privacy and equal justice in ways the founders of the Constitution never could’ve imagined when they penned the Fourth Amendment that protects us from unreasonable searches and seizures. In this spellbinding talk, Jeffrey Rosen, President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, describes how the use of public surveillance systems, brain scans, DNA collection and consumer profiling calls for new translations of the amendment so that it protects privacies in the 21st century that the Constitution’s framers took for granted in the 18th. Recognizing that ubiquitous surveillance is akin to the general warrants that sparked the American Revolution, we must all demand zones of immunity that protect privacy and equality in the digital age.
Jeffrey Rosen is president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a museum and civic-education headquarters dedicated to non-partisan Constitutional discussion and debate. Well-versed in American freedoms and rights, he is a law professor at George Washington University and a contributing editor to The Atlantic, and has been referred to as “the nation’s most widely read and influential legal commentator.” Among many other works, he is the author of The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America, and co-editor of Constitution 3.0: Freedom and Technological Change.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@Dignity100]

This is a very insightful and important talk, It raises points that goes beyond the issues I covered when I was in law school during the dark ages of the last century. Thank you.

[@bellarain9125]

This is increasingly pertinent. Thank you for your well researched thoughts.

[@ahmadwaheedafghanyar8371]

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[@michaelhupertz6703]

Intimate thoughts searched or seizured by an unauthorized source is a blatant act of constitutional breech. A turn in the education process can alleviate this.

[@indigobunting2431]

Intimate thoughts can be already be searched or "seized" -- just consider involuntary mental exams. These are typically considered to be civil-court matters, with lesser standards of proof needed than in pure criminal matters. Breaching constititional rights seems to be "Standard Operating Procedure" for police in civil seizure of persons, even though such persons are then incarcerated/hospitalized. Patients in the "psych ward" nowadays are not only locked in, but are watched under video surveillance in their rooms, at mealtimes, all 24 hours a day, without consent; involuntary patients are typically only offered "probable cause" hearings many days after "seizure" and hospitalization [using the relaxed standard for non-criminal, civil matters, with hearsay often relied upon]. Because hearings are held in near secrecy, it is hard for patients to prove they are sane, nondangerous, or able to live on their own. Hearings last only minutes in most cases. The ultimate insult: involuntary hospitalization mental-health reasons can result in enormous health costs for unwanted health treatments, billed to individuals through co-pays or insurance, all typically based on very vague standards of "dangerousness to self or others."

[@luddity]

Any tool or technique can potentially be turned against its original user. And this is how we get Skynet.

[@dancinina4592]

Thanks RUclips for not censoring these talking points/this video

[@thadrepairsitall1278]

I am honestly concerned about facial recognition at stores like Walmart, Target, and Home Depot. Current technology allows for them to track who you are, your movements, and what you look at.

[@fletcher6565]

The Movie the minority report seems to be coming real.

[@superj1002]

Haha that's what I'm saying

[@PATRIOT-gl3cn]

What would John Jay do?

[@michellestockman5751]

Please tell me who will help me when the people who took an oath to serve and protect, are the very reason I don't feel safe and have nowhere to go for help

[@frankiegoss7740]

The 2ND Amendment community...After all that's why the 2nd Amendment was written.

[@PATRIOT-gl3cn]

Anyone ever hear of Skytell?