Re:Live: Head of NSA meets with House Intelligence Committee
by fnordfnordfnord on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @06:28PM
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A person can revoke Facebook's and Google's access. A person at least gets to read the TOS of fb and Google, we both know that rarely happens, but the possibility exists where it is completely absent in the case of the gov't.
>The 4th Amendment covers the relationship between you and the government.
Yes, of course it does. And it's because the gov't cannot scan and fish facebook for crimes to solve that people feel comfortable enough to share such information.
The 4th Amendment covers the relationship between you and the government. It does not cover the relationship between the government and a third-party, unless Congress passes additional legislation to add that protection.
Congress has done so for the mail, for landline telephone, beepers, and cellular telephones. They have not done so in the general case for email or other electronic data hosted by a third-party, and yet email and other electronic services somehow have become incredibly popular.