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The 4th amendment established inherent rights to privacy!


The 4th amendment restricts the ability of the government to infringe on your privacy. It does not restrict telecom companies in any way whatsoever.


Then why are you saying:

> There isn't a similar existence of privacy rights.

upthread?!


It's actually the seizure clause. The government can't seize your duck without a warrant, and that means if somebody's speech about you weighs as much as a duck, they've seized a duck's weight in information about you (measuring as if it's written on constitution-grade parchment), which violates your right to privacy as implied by the 4th amendment.




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