Dear mother of Gawd, I am tired of arguing with rocks [View all]

[boston bean]

I got better things to do. But I'm leaving for today with these thoughts.....

For a warrant you need probable cause. Without probable cause the warrant violates the 4th Amendment.

Your neighbors can't get your phone records from the phone company.. To be clear on this point, they can't write to the phone company and ask them for all the details of your phone calls. ie, who you called, and for how long and from where. The government can't do this either without a warrant based on probable cause. A warrant issued upon probable cause. And your neighbors certainly can't get a warrant on you, and neither can the phone co. But the govt can.

Issuing a warrant for these types of records, metadata, by the government, on everyone with a phone, obviously is in violation of this. Certainly, not everyone with a phone is going to meet the criteria of a warrant issued upon probable cause. There is no probable cause. It's just not possible or believable.

Then to store this data for future querying in criminal cases is fucking scary.

Good Lawd, I wish some people would wake up.