A person you have met at several social functions calls to thank you for bringing beer to the party... This person happens to be a person of interest, & you are now linked to them thanks to meta-data and cross-referencing by the FBI... Is that enough for local LE or the FBI to come stop you, search you, search your car, search your house, or stop & search your child? Thus, probable cause *is* important-as is civilian, judicial review of what LE or the FBI think is probable cause...
Though the government doesn't, I'd liken their Verizon-grab to LEOs thinking someone at a Red Sox-Yankee game may be involved in an illegal activity-without having any proof or probable cause against a single individual... So the LEOs search the inside of every car and stop and search every person at the game.
Yes, finding criminals is harder without the ability for LEOs to just stop and search every car and person. Yet, that isn't the issue...The issue is whether such stops & searches are *legal* and *Constitutional*...
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