Sunday, December 18, 2011

Terry Gross Interview

Facts: 
  1. Genetic engineering may soon allow parents to control what their children look like.
  2. New technologies challenge our constitutional categories in dramatic ways.
  3. Technology challenges personal vs. private space, freedom of space, and individual autonomy. 
  4. United States vs. Jones is debating whether police need a warrant to put a gps tracker on cars. 
  5. Gps case has the potential to become the case of the century.
  6. Brandeis wrote the dissenting opinion in Olmstead v. United States.
  7. Olmstead v. United States case which the court ruled that neither the Fourth Amendment nor the Fifth Amendment protects a defendant against having personal conversations wiretapped by federal agents.
  8. New technologies could be created in the near future that would challenge future constitutional laws. 
  9. Leaders of technology and internet are writing the book on freedom of expression and speech.
  10. Google has been under pressure from U.S. government to remove terrorist videos from YouTube.
Questions:
  1. Where does the border lie between public and private with technology?
  2. Do police have the right to incriminate you based on facebook/twitter information?
  3. Is there jurisdiction on the internet?
  4. Can America tell google and youtube to take down any videos or is this a violation of free speech?
  5. Can free speech be violated on the internet?

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