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Yea, except doesn't Facebook etc often make it pretty easy - no demand, just pay us some fee and we'll give you data? I mean, Google and Facebook are just selling the data. From what I recall hearing, the phone companies give away location data pretty similarly too. It's not a constitutional issue if you "voluntarily" give data to a third party and they're just willingly selling that - whether it's to another company, individual or the government.