[sitkack]

This is by design. The government does two things

1) Requiring businesses to record certain pieces of information, but keep it as business data, but not send it in realtime to the gov.

2) It declares that business data is not protected personal papers, and can collect it without a warrant.

I believe both of these concepts were codified in the patriot act.

[salawat]

Goes back further. Look up Third Party Doctrine, pen registers, and Katz &White v. United States.

https://verdict.justia.com/2020/06/17/the-third-party-doctri...

Behold the utter schizoid nature of your legal system citizen, and gasp!

[chislobog]

Is it illegal for the government to purchase a company in order shutter it from offering services to the public? I know this is done for technologies, I suppose as a conceptual matter, and patents.

Similarly how far can USG go in putting the screws to a provider? If you don’t comply with our desire for visibility into your network, for whatever lawful purpose where that visibility facilitates it, we are going to use contract and regulatory decision making to damage your ability to compete. CALEA doesn’t go that far but if you’re following what I’m asking here this seems to be a boot strapping attempt.