" … let's say a friend of mine from school, who I spent a lot of time talking to on the phone a decade ago, decided this year to become a drug dealer. The government could start investigating me based on this stale data, despite not having any reasonable suspicion that I was involved in any crime."
Next time you're pulled over for a "random traffic stop" or some inexplicably-enforced minor violation (brake lights out, rolling thru a stop sign, singled out in a stream of traffic doing ~10 over on an interstate), I assume the words "parallel construction" will loom large in your mind – along with the memory of that old girlfriend's junkie ex, and your college room-mate's best pal who used to deal weed…
Next time you're pulled over for a "random traffic stop" or some inexplicably-enforced minor violation (brake lights out, rolling thru a stop sign, singled out in a stream of traffic doing ~10 over on an interstate), I assume the words "parallel construction" will loom large in your mind – along with the memory of that old girlfriend's junkie ex, and your college room-mate's best pal who used to deal weed…