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The article examines the effects of automation on the job market both in terms of replacing human workers and creating new employment opportunities. It cites the example of the Industrial Revolution to note a forecasted trend of initial disruption followed by adjustment leading to long-term economic gains.

The article focuses on the constitutionality of the U.S. National Security Agency's (NSA) spying on all Americans. It states the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution provides people the right to be secure in their persons, papers, houses, and effects against unreasonable search and seizure and mentions in colonial America officials of the British Crown conducted mass searches of houses and persons despite the English Court's Saman's Case of 1603. It comments on Judge William H. Pauley III's ruling Americans cannot file suit against the NSA when he dismissed a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union due to legislation in the Patriot Act requiring the spying be kept secret forever. It mentions a report by the independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on telephone spying.