[goda90]

It should be pretty clear that privacy against government agencies is protected by the Constitution. Of course our government ignores that and tramples all over the spirit of the Bill of Rights, if not the letter.

As far as corporations? Not unconstitutional, but I don't think passing laws in the interest of the People's privacy against corporations would be unconstitutional either, so if our government had our best interests in mind, then they'd pass those laws instead of repealing them.

[1001101]

Well Smith v. Maryland, Third Party Doctrine, etc. holds that a warrant is not needed if you share data willingly with a third party. In this case, you give up your reasonable expectation of privacy. So... If you're sharing with Comcast, you're sharing with Uncle Sam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_v._Maryland

[gph]

>so if our government had our best interests in mind, then they'd pass those laws instead of repealing them.

That is still a debatable issue though. I completely agree with you, but there are possible world views in which one might think allowing ISPs to sell your viewing data will provide a better product to the end user. Of course this assumes trust that these corporations will act ethically with your data (i.e. anonymize the data before selling and not allowing any leaks of non-anonymised data). That's a dream world to me, but a lot of people seem to be living in dream worlds to me these days.