

It doesn’t matter. Even if it were constantly streaming the current volume level, the energy to transmit the value “100” is the same as to transmit “5”, so your phone doesn’t drain any faster to constantly tell the earbuds the volume is high versus low.









“It must be legal, I do it all the time.” This is not the compelling argument they think it is. Or at least, it wouldn’t be if we actually had the rule of law.
Edit: Also the fourth amendment is protection against unreasonable searches and seizure, not unusual searches and seizure. Just because they do it all the time doesn’t make it actually reasonable.