And commercial websites obtain the information for them.
Even if you don’t have an account with those sites they are building and selling a record about you.
Good article.
Especially galling (and hypocritical) is that the government considers emails not as electronic bits, bytes, or ones and zeros, but in all ways equivalent to words written on paper, and subject to all laws that govern *your* uttering them -—
-— but, when it is convenient for them, considers the same electronic records as fundamentally different from your private papers and effects, and not subject to the rules that prevent *them* from warrantless search and seizures.
Then should be required to state whether they consider emails, etc., one way or the other.
Someone may want to tell the (R)NC. Seems they need a refresher on their A1S8 powers vs. our 4th A. Rights...They did ‘give’ us the NSA, ‘Patriot Act’ and the like.
Yet, nobody even blinks an eye re: FISC\FISA.
Whom watches the Watchmen??
He might want to closely read his contract with the cloud storage provider. Some cloud providers do say they will protect some rights of the customer.
Even in the USSR the police complained that their hands were tied.
People are closing escrow on houses online, the FBI argues that they should be able to see it all based on the 3rd party doctrine
Oh they have to get a warrant? Im sure the judge will rigorously demand justification.