Techdirt. Stories filed under "third party doctrine"

Hey, everyone makes mistakes. Ring certainly did. Amazon’s home surveillance acquisition realized there was no one in the residential space willing to slavishly cater to cops. Ring decided it w...

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/30/ring-breaks-up-with-law-enforcement-will-no-longer-provide-a-footage-request-portal-for-cops/

Buying domestic data from data brokers is just something the government does all the time. Bypassing restraints enacted by the Supreme Court, federal agencies (along with local law enforcement ag...

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/29/well-thats-everyone-senator-wyden-letter-confirms-the-nsa-is-buying-us-persons-data-from-data-brokers/

We’ve expressed our displeasure with geofence warrants multiple times. I’ve often referred to them as “reverse” warrants, a term that implies how these warrants invert probable cause. Tho...

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/16/bulk-suspicion-typo-in-geofence-warrant-created-two-mile-long-dragnet/

The Fourth Amendment is rarely a match for the Third Party Doctrine. In recent years, things have gotten a wee bit better thanks to a couple of Supreme Court rulings. But the operative principle ...

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/28/every-major-pharmacy-chain-is-giving-the-government-warrantless-access-to-medical-records/

For decades, the government has used the Third Party Doctrine to obtain massive amounts of phone records without a warrant. Even prior to the creation of the Third Party Doctrine by the Supreme C...

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/29/ron-wyden-wants-to-know-why-the-dea-still-has-on-demand-access-to-trillions-of-phone-records/

Dominating a field is a mixed blessing. On one hand, it gives you extensive reach, immensely profitable products, and — if you’re just too good at it — the horrific realization your brand n...

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/10/03/google-is-still-the-search-engine-of-choice-for-law-enforcement/

For several years, the government was able to route around the Fourth Amendment by turning cell service providers into proxy tracking devices. Thanks to the Third Party Doctrine, location data ge...

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/02/nsa-asks-congress-to-not-block-federal-agencies-from-collecting-location-data-without-a-warrant/

Having figured out the internet is a great place to find things, cops are increasingly relying on warrants that target tech companies in hopes of finding suspects, rather than finding suspects fi...

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/15/colorados-top-court-seems-reluctant-to-give-judicial-blessing-to-reverse-keyword-search-warrants/

There’s something about some government agencies that make them revolt against the notion of checks and balances. Some federal agencies have extra privileges that make it much, much easier. A l...

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/06/database-shows-ice-is-bypassing-courts-and-sending-subpoenas-to-schools-charitable-organizations-and-abortion-clinics/

If it can conceivably be considered a “third party record,” the government is going to seek warrantless access to it. The Third Party Doctrine — ushered into existence by the Supreme Court ...

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/30/more-mass-surveillance-foia-docs-reveal-illegal-snooping-on-us-residents-financial-transactions/