Quote Originally Posted by vt_maverick View Post
So while I agree with you that in principle the government affords us more protection under the law, in reality I think the risk ends up being about the same.
Again - its the difference between systemic and one-offs. The law prevents them from designing a system that abuses that information - no way would they be able to implement a program of selling that information to anyone and if an attorney wanted access to the information it would require judicial oversight in the form of a subpoena.