s information is treated as property right while personal information is not. There are laws protecting businesses from corporate espionage, trademark infringement, and unfair competition. As obscure as it may seem there is even a law mandating privacy of garbage, both corporate and household. In addition to garbage laws there are also precautions taken to prevent invasions of privacy by journalists. The attempt to maintain privacy when times are moving at such a fast pace is a challenging obstacle important to the individual and to business.The whole idea of individual rights was Madison’s main concern during the drafting of the Bill of Rights. There are a number of issues, not concerning privacy, that have relied on the leverage of the Fourth Amendment. It was Madison’s original intent to create a way to insure the people the right deserved. By stating the people retain the rights listed in the Bill of Rights but are not confined to them. Madison recognized times would change and the rights of the people must be flexible to change with them. The most basic rights are, in figurative language, “carved in stone”,1` but through long hours and exhausting legal wars the rights of the people are again and again being justified by a clause written over 200 years ago. All can be summarized by a passage from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison. Jefferson stated “The earth belongs to the living generation. They manage it then…exercising in fact the power of repeal [which] leaves them as free as if the constitution or law has been expressly limited to nineteen years only.(From letter of September 6, 1789, in Thomas Jefferson, Writings, p. 963)...
