You have a "right to privacy" anywhere you have the EXPECTATION of privacy.
You do not have that expectation in Wal-Mart.
# 150 by Texasforever
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You're right in that context, Texasforever.
I don't expect to be invisible while walking through Wal-Mart.
What got us talking about "privacy" is my interpetation of the 4th Amendment
as a limitation on the government's ability to interfere with our privacy.
By privacy, I don't mean that no one can see me,
I mean that I am not required to explain my actions, unless I am accused of wrong-doing.
In other words, if someone demands that I explain why I paid cash for that car,
I am justified in telling them to mind their own business.
You are right. And this law does not say otherwise. It says a record will be made that you paid cash for the car, if you paid $10,000 or more.
That has been the law for years. If someone from the government later asks you why you did, you have several choices: tell them, don't tell them,
ask them why they want to know, ask to talk to a lawyer before responding further. But until someone from the government asks you why....
the 4th Amendment does not apply.