“If the government places a surveillance device in your home, is that sufficiently like quartering troops there to trigger Third Amendment scrutiny? What if it installs spyware on your computer or your cable modem? What if it requires ‘smart meters‘ that allow moment-to-moment monitoring of your thermostat settings or toilet flushes?  These specific concerns weren’t what the Framers had in mind. In their day, to spy on a family in its own home, you’d have to put a soldier there. But now we have electronic troops in the form of software, gadgets and sensors. Maybe the law needs to take account of this.”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/07/22/third-amendment-nsa-spying-column/2573225/

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