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by about_help 2383 days ago
The problem is that the "reason" was simply being associated with someone. We need to creste privacy laws, this assumption thst it is OK to go through someone's personal life merely for being in someone else's contact list is unethical.

There should be compelling evidence, and after some short time period say > 5 years the person should be notified of the investigation.

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Filing a subpoena to get information related to an active investigation is a reasonably common event. The requirement for and around the subpoena are the privacy laws.

It's perhaps not reasonable to expect any legislature to pass privacy laws that block legitimate subpoenas that are part of an investigative process.

No the app for the warrant is sealed, we do not know what the PC for it's issuance was. Likely there was something beyond association.
Did you mean < 5 years?