As an aside, why is it not a law that the government can't pay another entity to do something it's not allowed to do itself, without a warrant? I'm thinking about geo data from mobile apps.

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samename 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It’s due to the third party doctrine, a Supreme Court precedent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine

	▲	avs733 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		which has been warped all out of any comprehensible reality. It hinges on the idea of 'voluntarily' turning over information. Much of what is now considered information voluntarily turned over isn't even information that people know exist much less that they are turning over much less doing so voluntarily.

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pwndByDeath 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Give up social media, make the man do it the old fashion way.