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While I agree with you on principle, legally, the boundaries of the 4th amendment's "Reasonable expectation of privacy" end the moment you give your data to a t
by droffel 11y ago
While I agree with you on principle, legally, the boundaries of the 4th amendment's "Reasonable expectation of privacy" end the moment you give your data to a third party. In Tor's case, you give your data to the Tor nodes (third parties). The 4th amendment unfortunately doesn't apply, the precedent here is rock-solid.
- lucb1e 11y agoExcept that they had to hack the network first, like the post says. There is definitely a very reasonable expectation.
- codys 11y agoIf one gives a locked safe to someone else for safekeeping, do they really expect the keeper to break open the safe and search through the contents? I don't think 3rd party doctrine is really a good idea if the above is OK.
- URSpider94 11y agoIf you put a safe in a storage locker, the police could gain access to the safe and crack it by serving a search warrant on the storage facility, without ever notifying you -- and in fact they could get a companion gag order to prevent the storage facility from telling you or anyone else that they had done so. If the service were willing, the police could even gain access by just asking. In that case, you might have a legal claim against the service, but not against the cops. That's probably the best analogy to data in cloud services.