• tal@lemmy.today
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    11 months ago

    The Fourth Amendment will affect police, but it won’t restrict a random person who is given access to something from turning over whatever data they want to police.

    Say I hire a painter, and the painter is painting my house’s interior, and sees a bloody knife in my house. He can report that to the police. But, remove the painter from the picture, and the police could not enter to look for such a thing absent a warrant.

    'course, the flip side of that is that if the police get a warrant, then they can enter whether I want them in the house or not, whereas the painter can only enter because I choose to let him in.

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      11 months ago

      That analogy is tired in the age of mass data collection without consent

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        11 months ago

        I’m just telling you that that’s the way things legally are. You’re arguing about how you feel that they should be.

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      11 months ago

      Not just police, any armed investigatory unit or state sponsored militia. The idea of a “police” force was pretty vague at the time, so the umbrella covers much more than it initially intended to.