When Edward Snowden revealed to the world that the NSA, an agency of the U.S. government, was using its technology to retrieve and store information from cell phone calls and e-mails, it immediately provoked concerns that the Fourth Amendment was being violated.  The Fourth Amendment clearly states that information can be obtained from individuals only when the government has a very clear legal reason to do so, and law enforcement authorities can seize this information only when authorized by a warrant. The recent explosion of applications for smartphones, or apps, suggests a new and perhaps far more serious challenge to the protections guaranteed all citizens by the Constitution.  Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution does it state that an individual has the authority to  give up, sell, trade, or negotiate away the protections granted to him by the Bill of Rights.  In other words, the protections provided to an individual by the Constitution exist at all times...(Read Full Article)