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Privacy Implications Of Smart Meters, Cheryl Dancey Balough
Privacy Implications Of Smart Meters, Cheryl Dancey Balough
Chicago-Kent Law Review
Many people worry about the erosion of privacy in our society given developments in technology, but that loss of privacy may take a quantum leap as electric "smart meters" make it possible for strangers to know on a real-time basis what is occurring in our houses and apartments. Perhaps the greatest concern is that current laws and regulations do not fully protect us from this unprecedented threat to two of our most basic rights—to be left alone in our own homes and to control personal information. Utility companies across the country are replacing conventional electric meters with smart meters designed …
The Inviolate Home: Housing Exceptionalism In The Fourth Amendment, Stephanie M. Stern
The Inviolate Home: Housing Exceptionalism In The Fourth Amendment, Stephanie M. Stern
All Faculty Scholarship
The ideal of the inviolate home dominates the Fourth Amendment. The case law accords stricter protection to residential search and seizure than to many other privacy incursions. The focus on protection of the physical home has decreased doctrinal efficiency and coherence and derailed Fourth Amendment residential privacy from the core principle of intimate association. This Article challenges Fourth Amendment housing exceptionalism. Specifically, I critique two hallmarks of housing exceptionalism: first, the extension of protection to residential spaces unlikely to shelter intimate association or implicate other key privacy interests; and second, the prohibition of searches that impinge on core living spaces …