The attorney general of Maryland who argued that case in 1979 has strongly protested against its application to mass surveillance.

http://www.npr.org/2013/12/21/256114227/1979-supreme-court-r...

Well, yeah. But what are we going to do about it since it's clear past due to update such laws. Now we're in the thick of an infrastructure that has just busted any practical sense of minimal right to self-governance.