The article is written as if to try and get you to avoid asking it too.
“Why was no warrant required for the data?”
“Why are police allowed to just ask for your personal info without a warrant”
What’s the point of warrants if they’re boo longer needed?
Like, warrants are supposed to be a crucial check on police powers, and here we are rendering them pointless.
Because the telecommunications companies are eager to cooperate with the police. Since third-party doctrine applies, the privacy of the company, not the client, is considered, so Verizon happily consents to all police searches of phone records.
This has been discussed all the way up with SCOTUS (dominated by the Federalist Society at the time) so its legal.
This is the question the entire article avoids.
The article is written as if to try and get you to avoid asking it too.
“Why was no warrant required for the data?” “Why are police allowed to just ask for your personal info without a warrant”
What’s the point of warrants if they’re boo longer needed? Like, warrants are supposed to be a crucial check on police powers, and here we are rendering them pointless.
I weep for the future.
Because the telecommunications companies are eager to cooperate with the police. Since third-party doctrine applies, the privacy of the company, not the client, is considered, so Verizon happily consents to all police searches of phone records.
This has been discussed all the way up with SCOTUS (dominated by the Federalist Society at the time) so its legal.
Oh I’m not saying it’s illegal, just that it should be.
On that we have no disagreement.