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@Writersoul Laws change and they change quickly. What’s reasonable today, can change tomorrow. Anyway suing the pants off any company takes years and is ridiculously expensive. If information is shared improperly, it could take years to sort through. Any law is only as good as the system that’s in place to enforce it. It is already known that the gov’t is sharing data with many companies besides Verizon and striking all kinds of deals to get access to the internal company data. We really don’t have a clue yet how deep the problem is. Bottom line is though that the 4th amendment states “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” This whole program and what led to it violates the Constitution which was set up with the intent of protecting us from being spied on without cause and that’s exactly what’s happening now. I’m not a criminal, you probably are not one either, so why can they dig through our personal lives without probably cause or a warrant?