Microsoft recently 'helped' Oklahoma craft a spyware protection act. They conveniently wrote in broad exceptions to make sure they and other content and service providers can continue scanning their users' harddrives. Check it out here.
These practices have 4th amendment implications. It's tough to argue we have a reasonable expectation of privacy in our computers while we have a host of companies constantly scanning our hardrives for pirated content. Especially when we supposedly have authorized this practice.
What's the best argument for a maintaining 4th amendment protections in a networked computer? Is there any way to reverse this trend?