Just when you think it can&#x27;t get worse. It gets worse.<p>I guess in a crazy kind of way it makes sense. Government has been mooching off commercial data collection for some time. It&#x27;s about time the commercial sector got to use government agents as sort of a contracted private intelligence agency.<p>&lt;sarcastically&gt;And hell, you could bump this up a notch. Just start paying for body cams on all federal agents. If the agent needs the data in court you save it, otherwise it can magically disappear (without any kind of judicial overview). Better yet, lying to a federal agent is a felony! So just text the guy and give him some sample questions he might want to ask. It&#x27;d be like a magic button to privately deposition anybody you&#x27;d like.&lt;&#x2F;sarcastically&gt;<p>I apologize for the hair-on-fire reaction. Good grief, it&#x27;s blatantly obvious that the players here, both commercial and governmental, are going to push this thing as hard as they possibly can until somebody stops them. I&#x27;m still trying to figure out who somebody is going to be.<p>ADD: A plug: I rant about this often on my FB page. God knows I try to keep it off HN but it&#x27;s a long-lasting news story that&#x27;s intricately related to the things we do. (FB page is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;Freedom-or-Safety-405551942874575" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;Freedom-or-Safety-405551942874575</a>)