very much.

if it is the government collecting the data, they must do so lawfully. and the 4th described the limits of government

if it's private data, and Google wants to investigate that house-fire, awesome.. thanks vigilante Google.

but giving the government authority to demand google handover their private property (the information they collect in the process of providing service) is quite a different thing... amd the story here in wired is sculpted as just "gumshoe detective solves heinous murder by ignoring the pesky constitutional protection"... then the buried lede: "gumshoe detective 's warrant is being duplicated across the country"

government doesn't need to build panopticon if it can force businesses to be the panopticon. citizens just get shotgun panopticon'd

wouldn't it be great if you could get back all the bitcoin you ever had spent?

you can't, because the protocol protects private property. that's why it is so important to have painful discussions about consensus.