Unlocking your front door is an action, not information that ADT has generated about you. Also, whether or not your door is unlocked has little bearing on whether investigators can enter your private house. Can you generate a better example?
My question is, why limit dragnet surveillance to only metadata? It seems arbitrary to not also record full transcripts -- if we really don't have any expectation to privacy.
The difference is that phone companies don't record full transcripts. Just like my kinect isn't recording my room right now. That's why I have a reasonable expectation of privacy even though there is a kinect in the room.
But I don't have an expectation that the requests I make to xbox is private.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/penta...
> Specifically, Petraeus acknowledged providing eight notebooks containing highly classified material to his biographer, Paula Broadwell, in the waning days of his Army career.
And yet
> In April, after a lengthy investigation by the FBI that disgraced the onetime military hero, Petraeus pleaded guilty in federal court in North Carolina to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified materials. He was sentenced to two years of probation and fined $100,000.