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Re:Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy by antonvs on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @02:05PM (#45904558)
> The user has no right to privacy. The same as how any internet service can be (and have been) compelled to produce private messages.

The legal term is "expectation of privacy", and it does exist, albeit increasingly weakly in the US. There are exceptions to that, such as a subpoena, but that doesn't mean anyone can subpoena anything for any reason. There has to be a legal justification.

It's not clear to me that such a justification exists in this case.

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Re:Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy by amanaplanacanal on Thursday November 13, 2025 @06:57AM (#45913855)
That's why there is someone trained in the law (the judge) to make that determination.
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