That advertising was false, and Tor project developers have specifically said that it&#x27;s not intended to defend against global adversaries like the NSA.<p>I wonder if false advertising can create a legal expection of privacy. What if I sell a red filter for you to hang in your windows, and advertise that it protects against anyone seeing through. But you can just apply an anti red filter to a camera and see perfectly. Is the government allowed to do that? (I don&#x27;t particularly understand optics, and this likely doesn&#x27;t actually make sense, but you hopefully get the idea).<p>An argument can be made that if someone&#x27;s using something they don&#x27;t understand, they shouldn&#x27;t have a reasonable expectation that it&#x27;s as described, especially if they aren&#x27;t paying.<p>Many people have misconceptions about VPNs as well. That doesn&#x27;t mean the data they willingly hand over is reasonably expected to be private.<p>(If there&#x27;s precedent for a false advertising interacting with the third party doctrine, I&#x27;d be interested in seeing it.)