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The other part of that is context. The NSA can't come into your house and read your mail for a week. On the other hand, people let google read all of their email to sell ads.

I think there's the idea of a spectrum of intrusion. Looking in windows of a car is a search, but that stuff is already in plain view. Is that unreasonable? We all know email is plain text and the sender does not control routing. It's more like a postcard than a letter to begin with.

That said, I'm a weeks worth of surveillance without a warrant is horrifying.