Leave it to a GOP spin doctor to blame innocent people for the agenda of their own political party. :smack:
It's been decades since a very right-wing U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people have no expectation of privacy while out in public, and that "probable cause" could be used as a catch-all excuse for illegal search and seizure. It's been nearly a decade since the Bush administration installed eavesdropping equipment so massive that every single phone call, e-mail and text is seen by the government. The ability has been around for a long time. New abuses are inevitable.
The big question here is whether "fishing trip" searches can be used to bring new charges against a defendant. If the cop downloads an unsolicited spam mail from China, clicks the link and downloads what appears to be child pornography, can the defendant be charged for sex crimes?
Oh, BTW...CA SB 1386 and Parts of the California Constitution make personal privacy an inalienable right. In other words, you seem to have picked the worst possible state to scapegoat in this matter.