I think your analogy fails in many ways. In the real world one will notice law-enforcement breaking into their ranch, in the virtual world, they won't (and com

I think your analogy fails in many ways. In the real world one will notice law-enforcement breaking into their ranch, in the virtual world, they won't (and comparing growing marijuana to voice/video over Zoom is wrong). In the real world law-enforcement wouldn't have access to the complete history of a conversation, in the virtual world they would. Even to anything in the past which is irrelevant to the topic. The events in the real world are ofthen ephemeral, we don't expect our friendly conversation to last forever, in the virtual world, however, they can be recorded and stored forever. Basically you should compare spying/wire-tapping in the real world vs. spying/wire-tapping in the virtual world.