[abigail95]

At the risk of being extremely inflammatory,

Plenty of criminals think they are having a private conversation, when in fact, the government is listening in.

What they did was a crime in Nebraska. It has been a crime in Nebraska for decades (centuries?).

The government used due process to get a subpoeona for information to investigate a crime.

Yes, the wounded parties here will feel like their privacy was violated, but from the information we have in the article, it seems justified.

The privacy and social implications have been the same for decades: your communications can be intercepted or retrieved by law enforcement, so if there is probable cause that you committed a crime, someone might go looking.