Above the Law: Does The Mass Collection Of Phone Records Violate The Fourth Amendment?

Above the Law: Does The Mass Collection Of Phone Records Violate The Fourth Amendment? by Joe Patrice:

Not to get all originalist, but isn’t “government collecting evidence at random based on vague suspicion” exactly the scenario that the Framers of the Bill of Rights feared? Liberals — or at least liberals outside the White House — generally agree on this. Even conservatives are on board with this one. However, there is an alternative view. It may be too clever by half, but maybe the collection of phone data wasn’t really a search or seizure? Maybe it’s a “reasonable” search?