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Ninety Years of Listening In
The telephone was invented in 1876. It took until 1968 for a law to require a warrant before the government could listen in.
In the first episode of Brooks Benson, TOC, Brooks walks through that 90-year gap: the 1928 Supreme Court case that said wiretaps were fine, the 1934 law that didn't stop them, and the 1968 and 1986 laws that finally did.
He then explains why cameras, voice recording and AI are opening the same gap today.
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