Twitter, Facebook, and other social media outlets have a great deal of information about all of us - and the government wants to be able to see it.

If the courts regarded tweets and other social media information as private, it would not prevent the law enforcement from getting information it really needs. But the government would have to get a search warrant, which requires it to show that it has probable cause connecting what is being searched to a crime.

DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.

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