&gt; a foundational principle of our judicial system<p>You are sorely misguided if you believe a foundational principle of our judicial system is deliberate and systematic invasion of innocent citizens&#x27; private communications.<p>&gt; no data center any country can build will ever so much as recover a single emoji from a single IM<p>This is fine and how it should be. Historically there has been no way to intercept communications on this level ever before - so why claim it&#x27;s suddenly necessary now? Especially since all of it has amounted to exactly nothing thus far...<p>This analogy has been beaten to death - but the parallels are almost exact when compared to Stasi Secret Police steaming open citizens hand-written letters for inspection... As others have already mentioned, one of the driving forces behind our nation was desire for private communications that the government didn&#x27;t have entitled and unrestricted access to.