[Alberta's Child]

I’m not arguing about the method the government uses to collect the information, but the ownership of the data. Look at your cell phone contract and see what it says about the location data from the phone. The phone company owns the data, not you.

The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply unless it’s YOUR papers, records, etc.

[MtnClimber]

Then citizens should take it out on their cell phone company for selling them out.

[isthisnickcool]

100% correct and some data the government keeps on everyone is in a fashion owned by all of us. IE: Court records, voter records, real property records, government worker communications, arrest records, calls for service records, etc.

Some states like Texas and Florida have Open Record Acts that mandate access to information maintained by the government. In Florida there was a recent exception added for records related to DeSantis regarding his travel records. The legislation, of course, was pushed by DeSantis who is running for president while at the same time collecting a paycheck from Florida.

When Bill & Hillary left Arkansas years ago before they did they essentially demolished access to countless government records in Arkansas.

Hmmm.....