On Sunday, Fourth Amendment advocates staged rallies in 20 cities protesting what they say is the ongoing, unwarranted surveillance by the U.S. government. The events received less publicity than the organizers first event -- Restore the Fourth on the Fourth of July -- and seemed to attract smaller crowds. Dubbed “1984 Day” after George Orwell’s
Critics Of Mass Surveillance Stage ‘1984 Day’
Organizers cite the Fourth Amendment and see the protests as part of an ongoing struggle to defend privacy.