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Supreme Court rules that warrant is needed to access cell tower records
| Sienna Stead Milk | 06/22/18 |
| insanely creepy background story | 06/22/18 |
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Date: June 22nd, 2018 11:25 AM Author: Sienna Stead Milk https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-rules-that-warrant-is-needed-to-access-cell-tower-records/2018/06/22/4f85a804-761e-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4007988&forum_id=2#36290256) |
Date: June 22nd, 2018 3:19 PM Author: insanely creepy background story Although the majority professes a desire not to “‘embar- rass the future,’” ante, at 18, we can guess where today’s decision will lead. ... Legislation is much preferable to the development of an entirely new body of Fourth Amendment caselaw for many reasons, including the enormous complexity of the subject, the need to respond to rapidly changing technology, and the Fourth Amendment’s limited scope. The Fourth Amendment restricts the conduct of the Federal Govern- ment and the States; it does not apply to private actors. But today, some of the greatest threats to individual pri- vacy may come from powerful private companies that collect and sometimes misuse vast quantities of data about the lives of ordinary Americans. If today’s decision en- courages the public to think that this Court can protect them from this looming threat to their privacy, the deci- sion will mislead as well as disrupt. And if holding a provision of the Stored Communications Act to be uncon- stitutional dissuades Congress from further legislation in this field, the goal of protecting privacy will be greatly disserved. The desire to make a statement about privacy in the digital age does not justify the consequences that today’s decision is likely to produce.
(Alito, J., dissenting) |