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For emails in the cloud, and probably other data, they don't need a warrant if it's 6 months or older anyways. So they probably can force them to give it out for free. But either way they have a black budget so we are fucked in many ways.

https://emailserverprovider.com/emails-texts-documents-older...

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It's no longer that black and white since US v. Carpenter. It needs someone to try it again. In that case SCOTUS did cite Warshak[1], which while not binding over the whole nation, is persuasive and clearly the older 2018 SCOTUS showed their potential interest in ending the Third Party Doctrine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine

[1] https://www.huntonprivacyblog.com/2010/12/17/court-finds-fou...

That's good to hear

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