Notwithstanding, this assessment is misguided. Our constitution and particularly the Fourth Amendment's restriction on baseless pursuit and seizure of individual data by the government ensures the metadata that is connected to our computerized records is afforded the same protections as the records itself. Despite the fact that developments in cutting edge technology "have changed the game" (Moore, 2010), the law ought to additionally adjust and secure this particular data when there are genuine motivations to do so.
Proponents of government surveillance would argue that accessing metadata is necessary to keep the homeland safe, which is a good point. A government which is completely blind and deaf is essentially useless to its people, because it has no way of protecting them. So being able to gather metadata is useful at some times. However, the laws that determine when and where this is necessary are quite vague. Government acquisition of metadata is currently unfettered and untamed, through use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to grant far-reaching and sometimes questionable warrants to gather civilian data. At some point, we the people must be able to demand informational privacy.
When people ask for informational privacy, they want the right to control the use and access of their information. When considered this way, information privacy means that we have the right to control our information and most, if not all subsequent uses of it. This also applies to when aforementioned information is released to third parties. This definition is supported by the mosaic theory of the Fourth Amendment which is essentially the idea that multiple searches for information by the government, even if each is justified on its own, may become unjustified under the Fourth Amendment by the idea that the greater intrusion made possible by aggregating and analyzing the information as a larger data set, which may reveal patterns and sensitive information not obtainable through any individual search and potentially not relevant to the purposes of the individual searches themselves (Newell 351).