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Is this about the draft opinion leak? Or a 4th Amendment related opinion that was issued recently? I don't quite understand how the Supreme Court is involved right now. The Court doesn't really have a good track record of understanding the threats to privacy that technology brings, but that's been the situation for some time.

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The problem is that Roe v. Wade frames the right to have an abortion as stemming from the right to privacy, and in fact is the decision that created the concept of a Right to Privacy. So, in Theoretical Jurisprudence Land, the Right to Privacy is at risk, because it's tied to something much more controversial.

This is demonstrably untrue. Louis Brandeis (late Supreme Court justice) and his business partner Samuel Warren published an article called the "Right to Privacy" in 1890.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Privacy_(article)