{"id":56550,"date":"2023-12-15T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=56550"},"modified":"2023-12-15T18:08:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T23:08:00","slug":"wapo-its-time-to-end-the-third-party-doctrine-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=56550","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: It\u2019s time to end the third-party doctrine (opinion)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/12\/15\/third-party-doctrine-end\/\">It\u2019s time to end the third-party doctrine<\/a> by Robert Frommer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The Dec. 13 front-page article \u201cPharmacies give records to police with no warrant\u201d highlighted the erosion of Americans\u2019 Fourth Amendment rights. And the culprit here is the Supreme Court, which created the \u201cthird-party doctrine\u201d in the 1970s. Under it, people lose all constitutional protection in information they share with others, even incredibly sensitive information such as medical and pharmaceutical records. As technology advances, this problem will just get worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s long past time to junk the third-party doctrine. After all, if I take my car to the mechanic, the government can\u2019t march in and look under my hood. It should be the same with our information. If I confide in my doctors or pharmacies as part of getting medical care, and they promise to keep that information secure, that is a decision the Constitution should respect. Anything less leaves us looking over our shoulder, fearful of unwarranted government snooping.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>[That won&#8217;t be any time soon.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: It\u2019s time to end the third-party doctrine by Robert Frommer:<\/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-56550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-third-party-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56550","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=56550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56551,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56550\/revisions\/56551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}