No. A warrant means they can start accessing data. Install bugs, tracking devices... the whole works. All fourth amendment protections are gone once a judge grants the Police a warrant.

The question is whether or not you want "Metadata" to be part of that pool or not. Personally speaking, I don't.

> Maybe, but things are much more complicated than public and not public.

Which is why discussion of this issue is important. The fact is, you expect something from the Police that is different than the Status Quo for the past decades.

It frustrates me to no end when all the YCombinator posters around here complain and protest in obscure ways (ie: putting Snowden up as a statue in a park), and then they don't really try and learn the intricacies of the law and try to find changes that everyone actually agrees upon.

The reason our political system is borked is because no one is actually discussing the law or how to change it. Our Congressmen get vague clues (ie: SOPA BAD!!), but they really are struggling to understand our opinion in general.