Guy Incognito
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Does the government have the right to read your email, if they're providing the power that keeps the lights on at your internet service provider? No one is forcing you to use the internet or to have electricity, therefore your consent to this invasion of privacy is presumed. Right?
That analogy makes no sense. The government does have the ability to regulate internet service providers and e-mail companies, even mandating disclosure of all their files. That is between the company and the government, not the user and the government. As long as it is in the TOS when you sign up for the service, you're consenting to it.
The government can't just do that retroactively, because you have a reason expectation of privacy. That would be a violation of the fourth amendment. But as long as you knew the search was coming before you signed up, it is not a violation of your rights.
I don't even know what you're getting at with the electricity analogy.
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