alt Hacker NewsPapers were covered under the 4th amendment. It's always been the case that a warrant could let the government access your journal.
Papers were covered under the 4th amendment. It's always been the case that a warrant could let the government access your journal.
> See United States v. Hubbell. In Boyd v. United States,[60] the U.S. Supreme Court stated that "It is equivalent to a compulsory production of papers to make the nonproduction of them a confession of the allegations which it is pretended they will prove".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_...
This opinion hasn't lasted the test of time but historically your own documents cannot be used against use. Eventually the supreme court decided that since corporations weren't people that their documents could used against them and then later that it also people weren't protected by their own documents.