A human rights lawyer drafts a brief arguing that mass surveillance violates her client's right to privacy, citing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, only to confront the government's response that these instruments drafted in 1948 and 1966 could not possibly have contemplated digital communications, that applying them to modern technology requires interpretation so creative it amounts to judicial invention, and that the framers of these instruments would not recognize the claimed protections as what they intended.