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> The DIA "currently provides funding to another agency that purchases commercially available geolocation metadata aggregated from smartphones," > The Supreme
by djrogers 6y ago
> The DIA "currently provides funding to another agency that purchases commercially available geolocation metadata aggregated from smartphones,"
> The Supreme Court held in its 2018 Carpenter v. United States ruling that the government needs an actual search warrant to collect an individual's cell-site location data.
These appear on the surface to be 2 separate things. If they’re not buying “an individual's cell-site location data” then they are not circumventing the warrant process.
If a judge rules that aggregate metadata also requires a warrant (which I’d be ok with) then we have a path to object here.
- count 6y agoBuying a commercial service and compelling disclosure of otherwise confidential data are pretty substantially different things (not a value judgement on if this is a good idea either way, just a comment on the difference).