I am reposting this, from a comment I just made, in repsonse to people talking privacy, NSA, the Smith v Maryland case, 4th Amendments, and signing your life away to contractual agreements with 3rd parties, apps, and the like:
If I make a contract with that 3rd party, I have given up my rights to that 3rd party. That 3rd party owns my info, and can do what they want with it. This includes, but is not limited to, my public library, google, facebook, twitter, the DMV or any state entity, my bank, and just about everything we do is exempt from the 4th amendment. Cops can’t come and bust down my door, nor may they unlawfully peer into my home.
But if I have entered willfully into a contract with a 3rd party, signing something that allows them to maintain and moderate my data, there isn’t anything the government could do, nor law they could change, to alter that.
The NSA is bullshit. If you aren’t plotting to blow up a nuclear bomb in a city, you are totally irrelevent.
People whine about privacy, and it hasn’t existed since the late 70’s with that Smith v Maryland Supreme Court Case. Precedent is set. Our country is broken, and can’t move backward to fix stuff to move forward.
But people worry about the NSA, when they post on Facebook and Google all day long, and download “free” apps, giving away every single one of your rights. It’s astonishing to me how out to lunch people are about EVERYTHING.
We’re all just products being bought and sold. It’s better you don’t think to deeply about it.
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