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by Amezarak 1413 days ago
The Constitution doesn’t stop them from requesting or paying for a service, just ordering companies to do it. This is how they are allowed to buy all your location data, and how the cops usually get all your data from social media (no subpoena needed, they just ask), and how it is that crime perpetrators are zapped off social media almost instantly before regular people can look their posts up.

There’s a big, big loophole that people overlook here. FAANG etc have whole departments of people dedicated to voluntarily turning your data over to the state.