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Electronic surveillance succeeds because it is secret. When the government seeks to record “what is whispered in the closet,” in the words of Justice Brandeis, it must use clandestine methods. Since at least 1928, when Brandeis wrote his United States v. Olmstead dissent, it has been understood that unseen surveillance also provides a “subtler and […]https://i0.wp.com/www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/blue-logo.png?fit=178%2C60&ssl=117860