Today, we live in an age where everyone is part computer and part data. The microprocessor extends our knowledge and productivity, preserves our memories, and enhances our senses. And an "Internet of Things" is fast becoming our nervous system. Concurrently, technology "not in general public use" is conscripted to survey people's movements, extract information from their bodies, and reduce their uniquenesses to electronic profiles. For a population that exposes private unprotected data bits in full view of the Fourth Amendment, there might yet be protection in the pointillism of privacy.
Until recently, search and seizure law relied on a snapshot approach that measured expectations of privacy frame by frame. But as technology blurs lines of perception, the Supreme Court has endorsed a persistence of vision that takes account of the unity of people, places, and things in time.
