Dear mother of Gawd, I am tired of arguing with rocks

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62. The court has ruled multiple times,

that when we voluntarily divulge personal information to any third party, we waive our privacy rights and lose all Fourth Amendment protection over that information. In Smith v. Maryland that logic was extended to phone calls.

"The Court...affirmed the judgment of conviction, holding that "there is no constitutionally protected reasonable expectation of privacy in the numbers dialed into a telephone system and hence no search within the fourth amendment is implicated"
- Smith v. Maryland, 1979

Congress compounded the problem in the 1980s with the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), which codified a lesser standard of protection for metadata. The EPCA has since been ammended by the Stored Communications Act, Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) (1994), the USA PATRIOT Act (2001), the USA PATRIOT reauthorization acts (2006), and the FISA Amendments Act (2008).