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In reply to the discussion: it isn't the legalities...it's the betrayal that's pissing people off [View all]HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Phone calls, email, internet usage, google searches, book purchases or library use...Whenever there is a private communication or obtaining of knowledge there is an expectation of privacy guaranteed by the 4th Amendment. Exemptions would be public statements...posting on blogs or message boards, letters to the editor and other published writings, speech made in public for the public.
Even the ph call metadata collection by govt is illegal, imo. An analogy would be the govt recording the sender, reciever, and number of pages of every letter sent by the post office. Assuming thats all they do.....
Given the secrecy, lying and obsfurcation, secret legal arguments, and the yottabytes of data storage space available, it appears very probable the govt is collecting content.