I know. It’s strange. I don’t agree with them. Generally, I think unless a judge and jury reliably witnessed a crime with their own eyes they shouldn’t convict and that prison is an evil place to dispossess the poor of what little dignity they have left after online advertising has raped their senses and datacenters have stolen their water (and don’t forget the atrocities in Gaza) but some other people have these views.

EDIT: why are you downvoting me, guys? I agree with you. Rittenhouse, Zimmerman et al. were good precedents. Trump’s presidential pardons are another thing that keeps free humans with dignity from prison but he hasn’t gone far enough. Regardless, his actions for Jan 6 protestors is one of the best actions for us to free people. These are all good things, even if they are incomplete and therefore imperfect.

The FBI is violating the spirit and original intent of the 4A by creating an entire industry out of the “3rd party doctrine” bypass to the 4A. That doctrine was whole cloth created by SCOTUS and Congress has been too happy to avoid credit or blame for it to not enshrine it in statute.

Nope.

Your personal information, when given to others, is now trash on the curb (in a literal sense, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_v._Greenwood )

Buying it just clears up the chain of custody as opposed to the NSA stealing it and reverse engineering your warrant -- OR -- using the good ole stingray.

I don't think that's been of much concern as of late.

And then it turns out the video took place in Dallas.

We like to think there are all these barriers to bad things happening where we live. "I'm sure someone (not me) would stop that." But it turns out there isn't as much bulwark as we think. Or we're the bulwark, so if it isn't us, then there is nobody else.

This is very different from buying your data from a company especially when the user consented to their location being tracked.

Too many people in these threads jumping to anti-Trump when the real issue is how quick we are to give up our our privacy to use technology and then quickly turn to shock in anger when it’s used against us.

Specifically, these big companies revenue share with app companies who in turn increase monetization via selling your private information, esp via free apps. In exchange for Apple etc super high app store rake percentage fees, they claim to run security vetting programs and ToS that vet who they do business with and tell users & courts that things are safe, even when they know they're not.

It's not rocket science for phone OS's to figure out who these companies are and, as iOS / android os users already get tracked by apple/google/etc, triangulate to which apps are participating

For example you can have a truthful statement: “all of the apps that you have are constantly spying on you”

And the rejoinder is “ any given app is not specifically selling my data to specifically the FBI and so therefore it is not spying”

To which the response would be: “that is correct however the aggregate data is bundled and sold off to specifically the FBI or intelligence agencies and so there cannot be a logical differentiation between apps.”

By that point the person has downloaded another rewards app and added their drivers license to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHsz6jzjbRc