[itsnowandnever]

I think people don't understand what this means either. the nation-state "agencies" that can and will get into your network/devices can do so because they would employ tactics like kidnapping and blackmailing a local telco field technician. or if it's your own government, they can show up with some police and tell them to do whatever and most will comply without even receiving a proper court order.

so unless you're worth all that trouble, you're really just trying to avoid being "low hanging fruit" compromised by some batch script probing known (and usually very old) vulnerabilities

[red-iron-pine]

plenty of big telcos push back to gub'mnt orders. they usually get a warrant.

or they just pay the $2100 per API call to download it from the telco or social media company.

it's not improper if you agreed to give a company the ability to sell your data to anyone -- the government is anyone, and they have the money.