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by SamReidHughes 2311 days ago
The 4th amendment established inherent rights to privacy!
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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.