I'm starting to think there should be a constitutional amendment specifying a right to privacy because the last few decades have shown they'll just keep pushing the boundaries otherwise.
There is zero chance of any amount of government in these United States cooperating in any fashion large enough to change the actual Constitution. Zero.
Electoral/constitutional politics isn't going to protect us. "International law" isn't real and neither are other laws. It's time to update threat models to include this fact. The threat-actors are definitely aware of it and using it to their advantage while relying on us to keep thinking on terms of the contrived systems they maintain.
Being creeped out by corporate stalkers and an invasive government seems to be something that a lot of "regular people" of all political allegiances have in common.
Then 3/4 of the states have to ratify it.
I don't think you could get half of states to agree the sky is blue let alone 3/4.
[edit] The Equal Rights Amendment has been in progress since 1972 and while they somehow managed to get 3/4 of states to agree (Virginia agreed in 2020) the 7- and later 10-year deadline built into the bill had long elapsed. And 5 states later tried to rescind their ratifications which isn't really covered in the constitution in the first place.
That one says simply:
> Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex.
So I guess what I'm trying to say is godspeed.
Us foreigners still have to deal with Americans spying on us. (And other countries spying on us.) And Americans still have to deal with non-American organisations spying on them.
It doesn’t limit what a private company can do. And Americans love private companies with full control over their daily lives.
For a historic example of limiting private actors, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un...