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Dell Cameron

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This concept, that some action the government takes is violating your constitutional rights, but that it can mitigate that by taking a third action, is the basis of how most surveillance laws work.

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The govt can wiretap you speaking to your grandmother in Italy, which is illegal, but made legal by subjecting the recording to a bunch of extra rules. But then, because it eavesdropped on you legally, it can listen to that call anytime it wants using a totally different legal doctrine.

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