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Values

Part 3: Applications uses a legal technique called ``translation'' which decides in a way that is faithful to the choices of the past. Applications of values in cyberspace.

Does police's wiretapping conflict with the Fourth Amendment? Does it require a warrant? In an early Supreme Court case, the judge ruled that wiretapping did not constitute tresspassing because police tapped wires outside the house. 39 years later, another court overruled the former case and held Fourth Amendment applicable to electronic eavesdropping; saying that ``Fourth Amendment protects people, not places''. As such translating the constitutional values to a fundamentally different context requires deliberation. There were choices that US framers did not make, and Lessig shows us that we ought to make them.



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Eray Ozkural (exa) 2000-12-27