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by pfortuny 4728 days ago
"Seizure" comes to mind, though.

Those data are seized. Either they are 'mine' or they are 'Google's' but they certainly are not 'public'. In any of both cases, it is unreasonable to seizure them (even if what you get is just a copy) arbitrarily.
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rayiner 4727 days ago
But the amendment doesn't talk in terms of "not public." It refers to "their... effects." Words aren't meaningless. To make a case for protection under the 4th, you have to make a case that something is your paper or effect, not Google's, and not just anything that is "not public."
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pfortuny 4727 days ago
You're right. AFAIK I keep ownership of my data when using Google's resources, now that I think of it.
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