- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
We don’t get a lot of privacy wins. Ya know? I’ll take whatever we can get.
I linked the wiki page for this court case. As of me typing now, page hasn’t been updated with the court decision. Prob will be soon. If you want the rawdog court document, it’s here.
TLDR. SCOTUS just decided that geofence warrants require 4th amendment protection. For the non-USA peeps, 4A is protection against gov searches without a warrant granted with probable cause. The court decided that since everyone now carries a smartphone everywhere, and loc data is highly personal, police geofence requests require a judicial warrant. In the same way one is required for the police to search your home.
Before anybody goes off about how “this doesn’t matter”… This does not restrict commercial data collection. Even so, it does matter. It is a step in a good direction, and will have real world impacts. It might even change the landscape around Flocks. Another positive step happened a while ago, in Carpenter vs the United States, about historical cell site location data.
Misinterpreting the verdict. The SCOTUS proclaimed this data to be privacy data with 4A protections. The definition matters. The win is the definition.
A lawyer will quote this definition to sue the pants off corporations abusing user privacy data.
What is the difference between Epstein and Flock? It’s mass gathering of who you are fcking and who you are associating with to be used as blackmail.
Is Flock gathering privacy data to round up your children to be exported as sex slaves. For a moment, lets assume i believe this with all my heart and all my resources. For me, in my head, this is the truth. Then discovery will be a load of fun. Cuz would ask to detail all the children ever pictured and how these children info was organized and then resold. No amount of FUD is too small. No conspiracy too far fetched. And no amount of effort sufficient.
Don’t see how these companies could continue financially.