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This has been the move to get around constitutional protections for decades.
Some former intelligence agent will retire and create a company that gathers the kind of data that these government agencies want, but cannot get without a warrant, and then it will sell it to them so that they don't need a warrant to obtain it (because through the magic of terms of service agreements, you've given the data to the business who can do whatever they want with it.)