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His argument for why Apple should assist the government in obtaining private information shows how easy it is to write the meaning of the constitution however you please, at least when a society is in the middle of intense technological evolution:

    The civil libertarian tradition of American privacy law, 
    enshrined in the Fourth Amendment, has been to see the 
    warrant protection as the Gold Standard of privacy 
    protections. ... the government must go to a neutral
    magistrate and make that case before it conducts the 
    search. ... But when the government does make that 
    showing, on the other hand, the public interest in
    solving crime outweighs the privacy interest. That’s
    the basic balance of the Fourth Amendment


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