The decision severely undermines fundamental Fourth Amendment principles that protect individuals against unjustified searches and incursions on privacy by law enforcement.
Then, they claimed to regard Labor proposals to much the same effect as unjustified incursions on privacy – but the terrorist threats to Australia have not shifted enough, quantitatively let alone qualitatively, to explain their apparent shift of perception.
Marc Rotenberg, the executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington watchdog group, said that the easing of government incursions on privacy and rights that traditionally followed a war may not come this time, because the technology-driven "architecture of surveillance and security" remained in place.
Mr. Curtin, meanwhile, weary of the incursions on his privacy, moved out as soon as his lease was up, and has since bought a condo in Long Island City.
By the mid-1970's, his community-building efforts had flowered into an American Civil Liberties Union-backed project called the Institute for Regional Education, whose first campaign, presciently, was a series of billboards and prime-time television ads calling the public's attention to governmental incursions on personal privacy.
Americans have been conditioned to accept routine incursions on their privacy rights.
Maryland also argues that the incursion on Mr. King's privacy was minor compared with the major benefit in crime-solving.
Critics counter that government regulation represents an incursion on free speech, individual privacy and the watchdog role of the Web in China.
Mary Ann Rothman, the executive director of the co-op and condo council, said that she thought the change was unnecessary and an incursion into privacy.
