I was asking what you meant by "We don’t really have “rights” to anything! We make them up as we go along". Because that was a fairly insane statement.
But okay, let's say that we're bionic and the government should presume that everyone has a cell phone and must have one, such that the argument "you're perfectly free to not own a phone and this will not affect you" doesn't hold water. Even in that case, what right would pushing a notification on you violate? If they were able to go into your phone and look at your personal information, conversation history, etc, it would violate your right to be secure against unreasonable search and seizure, for example. Forcing an alert onto your phone, though? I don't see where you have a leg to stand on.
So even accepting your premise, which I think is flawed, no, the argument is still not valid at all.
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