tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post6862849467464656717..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Will SCOTUS require warrants for cell-phone location data after Texas Lege failed twice to do so?Gritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-44986099582388126602015-08-21T21:35:28.846-05:002015-08-21T21:35:28.846-05:00I will be extremely surprised if SCOTUS were to ru...I will be extremely surprised if SCOTUS were to rule that any records other than actual conversations require a warrant. I expect the third party doctrine to simply be an overwhelming argument that the court will not set aside.<br /><br />Especially so for records of which tower were used at any given time rather than an actual GPS report from the phone. Even in the latter case I expect that SCOTUS will say that since the cell user gave the location information in exchange for whatever service the telco is offering (directions, etc.) that the third party doctrine still rules.Soronel Haetirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11639906179427371695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-7236451091554281482015-08-20T08:47:15.090-05:002015-08-20T08:47:15.090-05:00Texans can have no privacy that would be inconveni...Texans can have no privacy that would be inconvenient for those in power--and notably their enforcers--because keeping their power "knows better" than rights. I'm so sick of the dangerous minds in power, the oligarchy of abuse. I guess that's how a police state beats down its slaves. <br /> Ever since the U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act, there's been a top-down disintegration of rights. Like most evolution, it becomes combative in order to guarantee its own survival. <br /> THE GOV SHOULD STOP AT "PROTECT & SERVE." THE LEGISLATURE SHOULD CONSIDER THE CONSTITUENTS FIRST AND FOREMOST. They know that; yet they have little oversight (less all the time) and growing bribery. If it was cronyism as capitalism, now it's fascism as cronyism.<br />THEY DON'T JUST GO AFTER CROOKS, THEY GO AFTER EVERYONE THEY MEET. THEY MOST-CERTAINLY DON'T GO AFTER THEIR BUDDY WHITE-COLLAR CRIMINALS.johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02808884177035705472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-67807651418866012242015-08-19T15:06:53.834-05:002015-08-19T15:06:53.834-05:00Let's hope the geezers of SCOTUS stop sexting ...<b>Let's hope the geezers of SCOTUS stop sexting each other long enough to read this article. Maybe they would take it up as a challenge to demonstrate to the lowly state legislators how to be 'hip with the times'.</b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com