[Swordmaker]

4th Circuit Court of Appeals rule that no one has a right to privacy for information they have ceded to their cell phone carriers, including GPS data over time of where they've gone while traveling. All the more why Apple's complete encryption of iOS devices is important! — PING!

4th Circuit Appeals Court Decision &
Apple and the Importance
of End-to-End Encryption
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[sargon]

Absolute Tyranny, aided and abetted by the Judiciary.

I don't think this "bloodless Revolution" thing is going to work out.

I think we're headed for the other kind...

But Vote Trump in the meanwhile!

[mrsmith]

"consumers who knowingly and willingly surrender information to third parties "

Not enough laws can ever be written to protect the stupid.

[Swordmaker]

According to the decision, the appellants were:

ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION; NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS; AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF MARYLAND; CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY & TECHNOLOGY; AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION; DOWNSIZEDC.ORG; DOWNSIZE DC FOUNDATION; GUN OWNERS FOUNDATION; GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA, INC.; INSTITUTE ON THE CONSTITUTION; REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS; UNITED STATES JUSTICE FOUNDATION; CONSERVATIVE LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND,and Amici Supporting Appellant.

[WENDLE]

The immediate remedy is the cell phone will have NO SIGNAL on command!

[bert]

Aside from the fact an I phone is a computer with a phone ap, it is first and foremost a radio. It receives and transmits radio signals.

There is no privacy with a signal broadcast on radio waves

[Rurudyne]

Score one for people like me who don’t carry a cell phone and don’t care if you can reach me or not.

[mouser]

The sad part is this will work to the advantage of crooks

Just give your cell phone to a friend tell him to drive where ever

Go do what ever evil you want and when it comes up in court your cell phone is your alibi

And some poor stuck who was just driving in the area will go to jail for it because he was there

[RockyTx]

a cellphone is a two-way radio.
it is constantly transmitting your location
............

suppose there is an armed robbery.

the cops are going to investigate
every cellphone in the area.
who is not suppose to be there?
anybody could be a lookout.

[RedStateRocker]

When I and a few others reviled the PATRIOT act there were folks on FR who said “If you aren’t doing anything wrong, what do you have to worry about”.

[NonValueAdded]

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.

Ultimately it will come down to a reading of the Fourth Amendment that the words were not frozen in time, blind to technological advances. I find the decision very troubling.

[fella]

It’s like British General Braddock out in the primeval forest sneaking up on the French by building a road with axes. Do you think that the Indian scouts of the French might figure out where he’s at?

[zeugma]

Congress is going to have to act on this. I'm not holding my breath on that though. The surveillance state has lots of supporters on both sides of the demopublican party.