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by Aunche 2049 days ago
You're assuming that they're citizen accounts rather than fake accounts from pedophiles, spammers, and scammers.
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1) Please define 'fake account'. Does the fact that I have more than one Google account mean that some of them are 'fake'? What if I lie about or omit my government name?

2) When did people start losing their citizenship by breaking the law?

By fake I mean a throwaway account made for the sole purpose of criminal activity. A thousand accounts created by a single scammer do not deserve the same privacy as your personal email account.
Pedophiles, spammers, and scammers are still citizens.
I mean it's possible that they're alt account created on a whim rather than ones that represent actual people. Law enforcement could have requested information from about a few people who each created thousands of accounts, for example.
What's the criteria for an account being labeled as an alt acocunt or not? It's still created/owned by a citizen.
You're not exactly using FirstNameLastName as your account either.