Again, no. And as your own links demonstrate, this is not simply what I personally believe. It's also what the ACLU believes. Seriously, did you even read what you posted?
For instance, the one about medical records is discussing warrants, and whether the government needs one IN ADDITION to clear and articulable suspicion pertaining to a crime, and not just suspicion. Even in cases where the constraints on searches are eased, the reasonable expectation that privacy exists remains very real. Indeed, if there weren't a reasonable expectation of privacy, there wouldn't need to be clear rules describing how and when it can be pierced.
The article goes on to discuss the additional exemptions to the need for warrants pertaining to national security concerns, but as it points out, the existence of these provisions in law IS NOT to be interpreted as a validation of their constitutionality. In fact, the whole point of the link you provided is to underscore how dubious the claims to constitutionality really are.
Here's the crux of it:
Q: Is it Constitutional for the government to get my medical information without a warrant?
A: The ACLU believes that this easy, warrantless access to our medical information violates the U.S. Constitution, especially the Fourth Amendment, which generally bars the government from engaging in unreasonable searches and seizures.[viii] However, because the Patriot Act and the HIPAA regulations have only recently gone into effect, their constitutionality remains largely untested, although at least one legal challenge to the HIPAA rules is underway, and more challenges are likely.
Don't read what you want the articles to say, read what the articles actually say.
Specifically (from the first article): "Thus, some Supreme Court cases have held that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in information you have 'knowingly exposed' to a third party — for example, bank records or records of telephone numbers you have dialed — even if you intended for that third party to keep the information secret."
Going on: "Records stored by others. As the Supreme Court has stated, 'The Fourth Amendment does not prohibit the obtaining of information revealed to a third party and conveyed by him to Government authorities, even if the information is revealed on the assumption that it will be used only for a limited purpose and the confidence placed in the third party will not be betrayed.' This means that you will often have no Fourth Amendment protection in the records that others keep about you, because most information that a third party will have about you was either given freely to them by you, thus knowingly exposed, or was collected from other, public sources."
That's the law, that's what the Supreme Court has said, not what the ACLU hopes or believes.
From the second article: "Q: Can the police get my medical information without a warrant?
A: Yes. The HIPAA rules provide a wide variety of circumstances under which medical information can be disclosed for law enforcement-related purposes without explicitly requiring a warrant."
That's the statutory law, at this moment, based on the Congress's reasonable interpretation of the Constitutional basis above.
Of course the ACLU hopes to get the courts to go the other way, but as they tacitly admit: courts have not done so to date. E.g. http://www.law360.com/articles/376791/warrantless-seizure-of... (Warrantless Seizure Of Medical Records OK'd In Drug Case).
At this moment, it's hard to describe 4th amendment protections as applied to medical records anything other than aspirational on the part of the ACLU.
Holy crap dude, don't blame the weatherman for making it rain. He's telling you how it actually is. If that's not what you think it should be then he's telling you exactly what you need to (help) get fixed.
For instance, the one about medical records is discussing warrants, and whether the government needs one IN ADDITION to clear and articulable suspicion pertaining to a crime, and not just suspicion. Even in cases where the constraints on searches are eased, the reasonable expectation that privacy exists remains very real. Indeed, if there weren't a reasonable expectation of privacy, there wouldn't need to be clear rules describing how and when it can be pierced.
The article goes on to discuss the additional exemptions to the need for warrants pertaining to national security concerns, but as it points out, the existence of these provisions in law IS NOT to be interpreted as a validation of their constitutionality. In fact, the whole point of the link you provided is to underscore how dubious the claims to constitutionality really are.
Here's the crux of it:
Q: Is it Constitutional for the government to get my medical information without a warrant?
A: The ACLU believes that this easy, warrantless access to our medical information violates the U.S. Constitution, especially the Fourth Amendment, which generally bars the government from engaging in unreasonable searches and seizures.[viii] However, because the Patriot Act and the HIPAA regulations have only recently gone into effect, their constitutionality remains largely untested, although at least one legal challenge to the HIPAA rules is underway, and more challenges are likely.