{"id":30356,"date":"2017-11-27T00:08:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T05:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=30356"},"modified":"2017-11-27T07:05:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T12:05:17","slug":"wapo-opinion-the-supreme-courts-privacy-precedent-is-outdated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=30356","title":{"rendered":"WaPo (Opinion): The Supreme Court\u2019s privacy precedent is outdated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo (Opinion): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/the-supreme-courts-privacy-precedent-is-outdated\/2017\/11\/26\/fe9d1dd0-cfb2-11e7-81bc-c55a220c8cbe_story.html?utm_term=.b9274494a3b9\">The Supreme Court\u2019s privacy precedent is outdated<\/a> by Stephen H. Sachs:<br \/>\n(Stephen H. Sachs was Maryland attorney general from 1979 to 1987.)<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Supreme Court will hear arguments this Wednesday in Carpenter v. United States, a criminal case testing the scope of the Fourth Amendment\u2019s right to privacy in the digital age. The government seeks to uphold Timothy Carpenter\u2019s conviction and will rely, as did the lower court, on the court\u2019s 1979 decision in Smith v. Maryland, a case I know well.<\/p>\n<p>I argued and won Smith v. Maryland when I was Maryland\u2019s attorney general. I believe it was correctly decided. But I also believe it has long since outlived its suitability as precedent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo (Opinion): The Supreme Court\u2019s privacy precedent is outdated by Stephen H. Sachs: (Stephen H. Sachs was Maryland attorney general from 1979 to 1987.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-third-party-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30362,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30356\/revisions\/30362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}