>is the information under your personal control or did you voluntarily give access to and possession of that information to someone else? You are saying that b

>is the information under your personal control or did you voluntarily give access to and possession of that information to someone else? You are saying that by making a phone call, you are voluntarily giving information to someone else (the carrier), and so the government should able to access that data at will. And, I'm being ridiculous? >who generated the information? The NSA is collecting information generated by AT&T about activity on AT&T's private network The caller generated the data. AT&T simply collected and indexed it. There would be no data or metadata without the caller. You acknowledged this yourself in the first paragraph when you asked, "is the information under your control or did you voluntarily give possession of that information to someone else?" How could I give AT&T information that it supposedly generated? Once again, you're all over the place. And, your ridiculous argument that because AT&T offers the pipes, they should be able to do what they please with the data that is generated is tripe. You could just as well extend that to make warrantless wiretapping on all calls legal. It is all merely data on AT&T's private network, right? >The intent of the protections was to guard against the invasive physical searches of homes and persons that had occurred under the British Funny how you're so willing to update government powers based upon evolving technology, however, when it comes to the rights conferred by the Constitution to the people, you want to limit those to the technology of that day. In this case, you are literally limiting those protections to redcoats (or similar) showing up at your door and rifling through your papers. I can't believe you expect to be taken seriously.