{"id":10238,"date":"2011-07-12T13:44:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T17:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10238"},"modified":"2011-07-12T13:46:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T17:46:27","slug":"another-end-run-around-privacy-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/12\/another-end-run-around-privacy-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Another end-run around privacy expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/i-guess-the-you-are-all-criminals-act-didnt-have-the-same-ring\/\" target=\"_blank\">Julian Sanchez<\/a> thinks the government has stopped caring whether you are innocent or guilty online:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to an unwise Supreme Court decision dating from the 70s, information about your private activites loses its Fourth Amendment protection when its held by a \u201cthird party\u201d corporation, like a phone company or Internet provider. As many legal scholars have noted, however, this allows constitutional privacy safeguards to be circumvented via a clever two-step process. Step one: The government forces private businesses (ideally the kind a citizen in the modern world can\u2019t easily avoid dealing with) to collect and store certain kinds of information about everyone &mdash; anyone <em>might<\/em> turn out to be a criminal, after all. No Fourth Amendment issue there, because it\u2019s not the government gathering it! Step two: The government gets a subpoena or court order to obtain that information, quite possibly without your knowledge. No Fourth Amendment problem here either, according to the Supreme Court, because now they\u2019re just getting a corporation\u2019s business records, not <em>your<\/em> private records. It makes no difference that they\u2019re only keeping those records because the government said they had to.<\/p>\n<p>Current law already allows law enforcement to require retention of data about specific suspects &mdash; including e-mails and other information as well as IP addresses &mdash; to ensure that evidence isn\u2019t erased while they build up enough evidence for a court order. But why spearfish when you can lower a dragnet? Blanket data requirements ensure easy access to a year-and-a-half snapshot of the online activities of millions of Americans &mdash; every one a <em>potential<\/em> criminal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Sanchez thinks the government has stopped caring whether you are innocent or guilty online: Thanks to an unwise Supreme Court decision dating from the 70s, information about your private activites loses its Fourth Amendment protection when its held by a \u201cthird party\u201d corporation, like a phone company or Internet provider. As many legal scholars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,15,13],"tags":[715,58,154],"class_list":["post-10238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-liberty","category-technology","category-usa","tag-constitution","tag-internet","tag-privacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2F8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10240,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10238\/revisions\/10240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}