U.S. Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law
Jul. 18, 2018
Case may provide privacy guidance
The U.S. Supreme Court's Carpenter decision may provide a valuable tool for citizens demanding greater privacy protections for personal data, particularly location data, if it is lost or misused by the companies that collect, store and sell such information.
Anita Taff-Rice
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CYBERSLEUTH
A person has no right to privacy for anything done in public. Such a commonsense rule worked well when there was a clear line between private and public. But now that we all live increasingly electronic lives, the idea of what constitutes a public area has expanded dramatically. The enlargement of the "public" sphere enables unprecedented power to pry into our daily lives not only by marketeers, but by law enforcement too.
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