Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Founding member of Church of WiFi and Unallocated Space, and father of four
Five Ways
Ignorance
don t know, don t care, don t care to know don t know, uneducated, carelessness
We are Consumers
rumors, gossip, we want to know!
Convenience
better, faster, cheaper
Acquiescence
permission by silence or passiveness
Innocent Ignorance
Innocent Ignorance
We are Consumers
Convenience
Third-Party Doctrine
This Court has held repeatedly that the Fourth Amendment does not prohibit the obtaining of information revealed to a third party and conveyed by him to Government authorities, even if the information is revealed on the assumption that it will be used only for a limited purpose and the confidence placed in the third party will not be betrayed. UNITED STATES v. MILLER, 425 U.S. 435 (1976)
Reasonable expectation of privacy You know, I don t know what society expects, and I think it s changing. Technology is changing people s expectations of privacy.
--Justice Samuel Alito, United States v. Antoine Jones oral arguments
Key takeaways
If you have an actual expectation of privacy AND society finds that expectation to be reasonable, you have a reasonable expectation of privacy If either variable is false, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy Both values are in fact variables, meaning we (you and I) can change them in meaningful ways We are actively responsible for the life and death of our own privacy