https://www.wnd.com/2023/07/liberty-died-hearts/
The Fourth Amendment, which was written in the aftermath of British soldiers searching colonial homes with general warrants — search where you please and seize what you wish – serves two values. The first is privacy, and the second is restraint upon the government.
Privacy is a natural human right. A right is an indefeasible claim against the whole world. The right to privacy comes from our hearts, along with other natural human rights, such as life, speech, press, association, religion, self-defense, travel, ownership and use of property. We all yearn for privacy. Because privacy is integral to us – like the yearning to think as you wish and say what you think – it is not a gift or privilege from the government.
In protecting privacy in the Fourth Amendment, James Madison, the drafter of the Bill of Rights, was determined to prevent the new American government from doing to Americans what the British had done to the colonists. Thus, the Fourth Amendment serves that purpose – and embraces privacy as a value, a human right superior to the needs of the government – by imposing a warrant requirement on the government.
This warrant requirement protects all people – good, bad, Americans, foreigners, people the government hates and fears – from the violation of their privacy. Surveillance is a search for and seizure of data from or about a person, and all searches and seizures can only lawfully be done via a warrant.