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The reason cell tower data is excluded from Third Party Doctrine has nothing to do with the contents of a cell phone. Cell tower data doesn't have any relations
by estearum 4mo ago
The reason cell tower data is excluded from Third Party Doctrine has nothing to do with the contents of a cell phone. Cell tower data doesn't have any relationship whatsoever to the contents of the phone.
The relevant factors are:
1. It creates a near-complete picture of a person's whereabouts
2. It is effectively not optional to have and carry a cell phone today
You do in fact have a reasonable expectation that the government can't reconstruct a near-perfect timeline of your daily life without a warrant... obviously.
- stickfigure 4mo agoA cellphone is effectively you in the eyes of the law. Any automobile may be driven by many people. Only 30% of households are single-person households. We'll see how this plays out in courts. I'll bet the license plate readers survive. More skeptical about facial recognition though.
- estearum 4mo ago> A cellphone is effectively you in the eyes of the law. No. I just laid out the reasons why cell tower data is different. It has nothing to do with whether a cellphone "is effectively you," which obviously it's not.