Just in: Supreme Court rules that government generally needs a warrant if it wants to track an individual’s location through cell records over an extended period
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/22/politics/supreme-court-ruling-cell-phone/index.html
If this stuff interests you, I'd recommend getting a copy of 'Habeas Data' by Cyrus Farivar
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Habeas-Data-Privacy-Rise-Surveillance/dp/1612196462
More, from Ars Technica:
"However, the court declined to overturn the controversial "third-party doctrine," the 1970s-era legal precedent that found there was no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in data collected by a third party, like a phone company."
@schlink "generally" makes it vague enough to be a toothless provision.
@schlink #SupremeCourtDecisionsYouDefinitelyDidntThinkWereNecessary
And then you realize it was 5-4 and easily coulda gone the other way
America, 2018.
@schlink Too bad the Gestapo, i mean LEOs will continue to use Stingrays without warrants for the forseeable future.
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