alt Hacker NewsOne of Alito's main points appears to be that a search is not really a search, as long as it's laundered through a third party. Scary that this was 6-3
One of Alito's main points appears to be that a search is not really a search, as long as it's laundered through a third party. Scary that this was 6-3
I'm not too surprised because it's this court. I'm happy we can take the win for privacy rights.
We are very lucky we got this outcome out of this, because at least on its face the warrant was pretty well-behaved: They didn't get any identifying information until they had aggressively narrowed suspects. If someone had a convenient CCTV camera where the call was placed it all would have been moot. It's very possible if this geofence plan had only identified one person, the guilty party, it would be very hard to argue it was unreasonably broad as well. And as Alito did point out, this ruling won't actually get the thief out of his case.
We got a win today where a win certainly wasn't expected.