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by Terr_ 2819 days ago
> A warrant to search "your archive of business correspondence" or "your archive of love letters" is fine

But that's not what qwerty456127 proposed. They proposed an "absolute" right to secrecy of all correspondence.

In other words, you could catch a murderer covered in blood and you would be impossible to ever get legal permission to open the sealed envelope marked "Payment For The Job" that was in their back-pocket.