Although anmalone is correct in that the "right to privacy" appears nowhere in the amendments, the 4th amendment implies a right (to privacy) of individuals against illegal searches and seizures and arrests without legal warrants.This issue betrays the hypocrisy of our recent collection of conservatives.  The hypocrisy that chased me out of the Republican Party (but not necessarily into the warm bosom of the Dems) is that while they excoriate and ridicule "government" they, under GWB, have created the largest one in history...primarily because there's some near-psychotic need to "control" the populace and the current number of staff on the NSA, Homeland Security and CIA weren't nearly enough to watch everybody.  The incremental erosion of a person's right to privacy (from government snooping), a hallmark of the establishment of the nation, is the one Constitutional amendment under constant bombardment. 

If you look at how Germans, beginning in 1932, willingly endured a gradual, almost imperceptible erosion of their rights, especially privacy and freedom from government snooping, as a trade off for a false sense of security from a nameless enemy, each of us who can detect patterns should experience a butt-puckering reaction.  Each right surrendered created the opportunity for the government to steal away another.  I'm very disappointed that no one on either side of the Congressional aisle has made a strong move to repeal the Patriot Act, or to re-establish habeus corpus, or to shut down the (eventual) gulag in GTMO, or to put the kybash (or however you spell it) on illegal wiretaps, illegal searches and seizures, and those damned threatening letters from the National Security Agency.    

Is it a fair assumption that if the US voting public does nothing to stop government intercession in our lives, we will devolve into an autocracy/fascist state?  ["There's nothing wrong with a dictator...just as long as I'm the dictator [acquiescent laughter from a gaggle of amoral sycophants]."