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hmmm the argument that it is not reasonable that what I view on the internet is private is disturbing. I do have a reasonable expectation of it being private.

This is referring to the Attorney Generals statement that we do not have a reasonable expectation for our meta data not to be public.

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"Because you share that information with phone companies, etc".

He referenced a court decision about that. Can someone who knows what the case might be find it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_v._Maryland

That was related to a phone company, not for the internet. The internet providers give me a reasonable expectation of privacy. The point is, this hasn't been tested via the justice system because it was hidden. Therefore the simple explanation that it was a court decision previously (to something similar, but not explicit) is not very comforting.

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