Who Owns Your Data?

“while your account information may be personal to you, these records constitute business records that are owned by AT&T. As such, AT&T may disclose such records to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process."

Gee... this doesn't have anything to do with this, does it?

Of course privatizing surveillance is a swell way to avoid the strictures of the 4th Amendment*... not that there was much of it left.

*The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.