Can someone confirm for me that the 4th Amendment even applies?

[Demo_Chris]

51. Even this is constitutionally dubious -- and we both know this is not the limits they are setting.

The government is gathering information on individuals without a warrant naming that individual, any probably cause, the purpose of the search, or what they hope to find. The government cannot constitutionally do this.

That they found or appointed a judge willing to sign off on this nonsense is meaningless, the same process can be used to create a blanket search warant for every private home in the nation. The safeguard that prevents a single judge from doing so has, in this case, been eliminated -- no one is allowed to appeal.

The justification that has been offered, as if this were some kind of legal loophole, is that the search warrant is for the telecom company rather than the company's customers. I was pointing out where this logic failed. The company is not the OWNER of the information or package, they are the carrier. A search warrant for that company allows the government to search that company, not everyone doing business with them.

It is, literally, like getting a search warrant for a company operating toll roads, and then claiming that this warrant grants legal authority to search every privately owned vehicle in America.