From the article: "...when your information went to a third party and when the government went to a third party, the existing privacy Supreme Court precedent w

From the article: "...when your information went to a third party and when the government went to a third party, the existing privacy Supreme Court precedent was that your privacy interest was essentially zero," Kavanaugh said Friday" This is a perfect example of the problem. The fact is that this metadata is collected without our knowledge, or is out of our control to limit its collection. Just because a third party has metadata (obtained however, whereever and whenever), does not really give someone else (eg any government body or other private organisation) the right to claim that our privacy is null and void.