system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why is mass surveillance by the government on Americans not considered a violation of unreasonable search and seizure?
gpt
The legal reason is because you do not have an expected level of privacy while using internet services. Now *you* might think you do, but in a legal since you do not.

Because you are using the services of multiple privately own companies to access the internet, you are no longer acting in private, you are acting in "public".