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Third party doctrine for one: the data held by third parties has no expectation of privacy, even if it's about you.
From Wikipedia:
Basically the government's argument: if you wanted it to remain private, you wouldn't have given it to someone else.
I'm reality, it's an area of law that desperately needs to be updated.
The problem is that you almost can't function in modern society without having a phone. So their argument is in bad faith, and really should be checked.
Laughs in GDPR
(as an EU citizen)
The same EU that's desperately trying to ban end to end encryption and dictate which certification authorities browsers have to support so they can spy on you better?