&gt; I wish we pushed for a law that said you can only serve a warrant for a data request to the person whose data you want<p>Among the potential problems with such a solution is that it gives the government the imperative to adjudicate the &quot;ultimate owner&quot; of data.  It will not always be obvious, and when it&#x27;s not, it can surely be decided in such a way that tramples, rather than bolsters, individual rights over data.