{"id":61437,"date":"2025-07-08T13:28:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T18:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61437"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T20:16:10","slug":"reclaim-the-net-how-digital-convenience-becomes-a-government-backdoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61437","title":{"rendered":"Reclaim The Net: How Digital Convenience Becomes a Government Backdoor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reclaim The Net: How Digital Convenience Becomes a Government Backdoor<\/a> by Christina Maas (\u201cThe Supreme Court’s silence keeps 20th-century privacy rules firmly in place while 21st-century surveillance marches on.\u201d). Well, to be frank, the third-party doctrine isn\u2019t going anywhere as to something like crypto. It\u2019s essentially just a bank record under Smith v. Maryland. And \u201crejects\u201d is a strong word. Cert denial is \u201cdeclined for now, maybe forever.\u201d From the article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Supreme Court has once again reminded Americans that digital privacy is the kind of quaint notion best left in textbooks. With no explanation, no debate, and no visible effort, the justices decided they didn\u2019t feel like dealing with Harper v. Faulkender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was the case that could have dragged Fourth Amendment protections out of the rotary phone era and into a world where people actually use crypto and digital wallets and more. But apparently, that was too much work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Harper had the audacity to suggest that his rights might have been trampled when the IRS scooped up his crypto records from exchanges without so much as a warrant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harper\u2019s problem wasn\u2019t complicated. He wanted the Court to take a fresh look at the so-called third-party doctrine, the ancient legal theory that says if you share your data with a company, you\u2019ve basically gifted it to the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reclaim The Net: How Digital Convenience Becomes a Government Backdoor by Christina Maas (\u201cThe Supreme Court’s silence keeps 20th-century privacy rules firmly in place while 21st-century surveillance marches on.\u201d). Well, to be frank, the third-party doctrine isn\u2019t going anywhere as … 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":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61437","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\/61437","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=61437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61439,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61437\/revisions\/61439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}