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voxic11 on Oct 7, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The IRS is being investigated for using location d...

Maybe if this was 2017, but as of Carpenter v. United States the third party doctrine no longer extends to historical cellphone location records.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_v._United_States

tomnipotent on Oct 7, 2020 [–]

This applies to CSLI data only - if it's coming from another source (e.g. 3rd party tracking), not in violation.

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