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On the recordJuly 16, 2013
I maintain that the Fourth Amendment, to be free from unreasonable search and seizure, means that this metadata collected in such a super-aggregated fashion can amount to a Fourth Amendment violation before you do anything else.
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John Conyers
Democratic · Michigan

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Conyers argues that mass metadata collection violates the Fourth Amendment.

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