{"id":14048,"date":"2014-11-07T08:31:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T13:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14048"},"modified":"2014-11-07T08:31:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T13:31:24","slug":"techdirt-the-exception-is-the-rule-how-the-governments-good-faith-efforts-are-destroying-the-fourth-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14048","title":{"rendered":"Techdirt: The Exception Is The Rule: How The Government’s ‘Good Faith’ Efforts Are Destroying The Fourth Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Techdirt: The Exception Is The Rule: How The Government’s ‘Good Faith’ Efforts Are Destroying The Fourth Amendment<\/a>:<\/p>\n

While there has been some progress towards a restoration of the nation’s Fourth Amendment rights, there have also been several steps back. A lot of this seems to be tied to a judicial reluctance to side with criminals. These Fourth Amendment issues generally boil down to law enforcement v. bad guys, usually delivered without nuance. <\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals found that tracking suspects using phone location info required a warrant. This wasn’t a general ruling, however, and it was limited to several specifics in this case. The court found that cell phone location info carried an expectation of privacy despite also being a “business record” — something that is normally stripped of privacy expectations thanks to the Third Party Doctrine. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Techdirt: The Exception Is The Rule: How The Government’s ‘Good Faith’ Efforts Are Destroying The Fourth Amendment: While there has been some progress towards a restoration of the nation’s Fourth Amendment rights, there have also been several steps back. A … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exclusionary-rule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14049,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048\/revisions\/14049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}