My point was that if all the neighbors give information about you, that information can be used to get a warrant to search your house -- it has nothing to do with you giving out information yourself.
Not a great analogy -- you don't have a business arrangement with your neighbors. I was approaching from the idea that the government has a right to collect information they can about you from other sources.
If they didn't force Verizon to hand over the info, and they didn't break into Verizon to steal the info, your beef is with Verizon, not the government.
I thought we were arguing that the government had no right to invade your privacy by getting and keeping these records. That was the issue I was addressing.
And, once again, if the government gets my phone call information, that is different. Entirely different.
If they didn't force Verizon to hand over the info, and they didn't break into Verizon to steal the info, your beef is with Verizon, not the government.
Oh, I have a beef with both of them. But that still does not change the fact that the government should not have all the calling records. The use of this data will not stop with what you consider to be reasonable uses.