[mtgx]

There's a more fundamental problem at stake. Law enforcement has gotten used to requesting our data from third-party providers instead of us directly. So now they act as if that's normal.

But it completely bypasses the 4th amendment either directly or in spirit. In most cases they don't even need to serve a warrant to the companies, and even if they do, I think that warrant should always be served to the individual.

It shouldn't be served to companies just because "it's easier" and because it happens that in the 21st century the data about our lives is stored on a third-party company's servers. If we just wanted to make things as easy as possible for law enforcement we'd have to do away with many more of our rights.