Saturday, 17 June 2017
quote [ Later this year, the Supreme Court will decide if police can track a person’s cell phone location without a warrant. It's the most important privacy case in a generation. ]
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Ankylosaur said @ 4:46pm GMT on 17th Jun
[Score:1 Funsightful]
Next year: Is wrapping your cellphone in tinfoil obstruction of justice?
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lilmookieesquire said @ 10:03pm GMT on 17th Jun
[Score:1 Funsightful]
Why would you even buy tinfoil? What do you have to hide?
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sanepride said @ 4:56pm GMT on 17th Jun
I would have already assumed that cell phone use- data, location, etc. was exempted from any constitutional guarantee of privacy. I guess it's encouraging that SCOTUS is at least going to look at it, but given the current make-up of the court I wouldn't be too hopeful.
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XregnaR said @ 5:28pm GMT on 17th Jun
Curious why you would think that?
I mean I've never actually felt it WAS private, and AT&T has recently been exposed on that front, but from a 4th Amendment perspective I would think it would be reasonable to expect "privacy". |
sanepride said @ 5:46pm GMT on 17th Jun
Seems like a technical issue- cell phones are a type of broadcast medium. Correctly or not, we tend to think of 4th Amendment protections being more stringently applied to enclosed systems- dwellings, vehicles, landlines, etc.
Remember that scene in 'Pulp Fiction' when Travolta calls the drug dealer to tell him he's coming over with OD'd Uma Thurman, and the dealer freaks out because it's a cell phone? That's kind of the idea. |
Ussmak said @ 8:40pm GMT on 17th Jun
Can't you already do that with a third party app?
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Marcel said @ 5:33am GMT on 18th Jun
I don't use a cell phone so this doesn't apply to me. ;-)
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cb361 said @ 10:35am GMT on 18th Jun
First they came for the cell phone users...
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mechavolt said @ 1:37pm GMT on 18th Jun
I don't even have the internet!
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C18H27NO3 said @ 8:48pm GMT on 18th Jun
What the fuck is "internet?'
I don't even have electricity. |