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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

The Fourth Amendment will affect police, but it won't restrict a random person who is given access to something from turning over whatever data they want to police.

Say I hire a painter, and the painter is painting my house's interior, and sees a bloody knife in my house. He can report that to the police. But, remove the painter from the picture, and the police could not enter to look for such a thing absent a warrant.

'course, the flip side of that is that if the police get a warrant, then they can enter whether I want them in the house or not, whereas the painter can only enter because I choose to let him in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not just police, any armed investigatory unit or state sponsored militia. The idea of a “police” force was pretty vague at the time, so the umbrella covers much more than it initially intended to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which makes no difference in the provided example.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I never said it did, just a relevant fun fact.

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