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Behind the Blog: With Blogs Like These, Who Needs a Private Jet

  • What: U.S. Supreme Court rules on privacy rights regarding location data
  • Impact: Affects how government can access location data of individuals
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This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss the Supreme Court, the private jet, and AI on the TV. JOSEPH: I used to cover court cases and judge’s opinions a lot more back at Motherboard. Sometimes it was in cases I broke news in, like that time the FBI secretly ran a dark web child abuse website . Other times it is big decisions that have wider impacts on privacy, surveillance, and government power. Here’s big news regarding the latter sort of decision. I first saw news of it on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s blog . As it says at the start: “You have an expectation of privacy in location data that reveals your movements in the physical world, and even short-term surveillance of these movements is a search subject to the Fourth Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today in Chatrie v. United States.”

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