Posted on 11/26/2017 6:36:09 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
“The privacy of emails, photos stored in the cloud, even heart rate history from a smartwatch could be at stake, according to civil libertarians, as the Supreme Court takes up a potential blockbuster case after Thanksgiving.
When they return to the bench after the holiday, the justices will weigh whether the history of cell phone locations stored by a phone service provider is searchable without a warrant.
The case, Carpenter v. U.S., centers on Timothy Carpenter, who argues the government violated his Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure when it obtained his cell phone location records from MetroPCS and Sprint without a warrant. Authorities then used that data as trial evidence to convict him of a string of robberies at Radio Shack and T-Mobile stores in Michigan and Ohio from December 2010 to March 2011.
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>>whether the history of cell phone locations stored by a phone service provider is searchable without a warrant.
Why warrantless searches?
Quit data mining.
In a sane world, we could use a Privacy Amendment to the US Constitution.
The guy signed over this right to privacy, yes. But to the phone company, not police. Get a damned warrant.
I need a real time digital shredder.
Or a cute little EMP pulse.
I have a lightning strike table. Unfortunately it is for destructive transient discharge testing only. I also have a high pot and megger. 20,000 volts finds it’s path to discharge very quickly. The toys of the military industrial design and testing engineer. That’s how a $500 hard drive ends up costing $5,000.
This ruling would have an effect on local LEO’s, but I think the NSA and military are going to keep a copy of everything that happens no matter what.
I think you are correct. The Rights the Founders fought for and codified, are all compromised.
That said, I hope Trump packs the Supreme Court, Federal Courts, Appeals Courts, and every other Court - with young conservative justices that buy us more time.
I understand and sympathize that police work can be difficult. But our Fourth Amendment is more important than many of us realize, so police should consider using some of the older methods of investigation again. They weren’t all that difficult.
>In a sane world, we could use a Privacy Amendment to the US Constitution.
The supreme court told us we have one when they ruled for abortion. Funny how it never applies to anything else.
The data on your phone may belong to you.
The data in the cloud does not belong to you.
If the company that owns your cloud data wants to give data to the police, they can.
“But our Fourth Amendment is more important than many of us realize, so police should consider using some of the older methods of investigation again. They weren’t all that difficult.”
Who does your cloud data belong to?
How does the Fourth Amendment protect you from a cloud storage company providing certain data to the police?
“If the company that owns your cloud data wants to give data to the police, they can.”
They should be prohibited without a warrant.,
All the more reason to store it in a better jurisdiction like Switzerland, and use encryption.
The money on your person (i.e., in your wallet) belongs to you. The money in the bank does not belong to you.
(same logic)
Regards,
Yes.
When you rent a storage unit, the contents you put in it still belong to you.
“When you rent a storage unit, the contents you put in it still belong to you.”
Can the owner of the actual storage unit consult to a search of the contents of a unit that is rented?
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