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Originally Posted by greglepore
What gets missed in these discussions is that Constitutional privacy has not generally applied to things that were shared with 3rd parties,
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Exactly.
The government was generally hampered to abiding by the 4A restrictions unless special provisions in the Patriot Act which allow the NSA (Total Informational Awareness Programs/Prisim/etc) or other domestic security agency, perhaps even foreign intelligence allies which are privy to this data mining tap, to act without needing any just cause or warrant, and if those agencies feel there is a need to investigate something further they can, using either intensive scrutiny or blanket fishing monitoring upon the general public.
..um..let me rephrase the above..
There are no longer any government restrictions using the 4A.
And if there were any 4A restrictions they would be easily skirted: It's a small step for the myriad of background applications within all wireless or RFID interconnected devices provided by social media companies such as Google/Facebook/etc to initially intercept the data instead, and then give those very same government surveillance programs 'an anonymous tip'. wink wink wink.
The customer signed up to be monitored.
How simple is that?
All it takes is to get people socially addicted to using these platforms all the time.
Third party contracts are just willing engagements anyways.
The relationship is only bound by a complex one-side EULA contract, with nullification of such the only legal recourse for the harmed individual.
"Oh yeah try to prove we torted any of yall little biatches and try to prove you've been damaged by us specifically. We at a higher level than tobacco. We worth billions and it's all proprietary or top secret. We got binders full of legal firms and the means to shadow-ban anything you say or sue you for libel."
A harmonious relationship benefiting both government and private industry.
And of course those big media companies (owned by certain types of people who were totally not involved in 9/11) would then be privy to the limitless wealth of military defense funding available for 3rd party subcontractors.
It's the big military-industrial business of big data.
That's where the real gub'mint gravy is at.
Selling phones is secondary.