Court Rules Cell Phone Data Isn’t Yours

On the same day that the bulk collection and storage of US phone records was struck down by the second circuit court of appeals we've also had a privacy setback. John Iadarola (Think Tank), Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show), Ana Kasparian (The Point,) discusses the details of the story. Do you think you should own the content on your phone? Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

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"A U.S. court has handed privacy advocates a surprising reversal on a landmark pro-privacy decision: Last year, the court ruled against the government in the case of Quartavious Davis, whose cellphone was tracked by cops as he went on a three-month robbery spree. Privacy advocates celebrated that result as a new anti-snooping legal precedent. But now prosecutors could use the same court’s opposite finding to instead justify warrantless snooping on your cellphone’s location.

In a decision published Tuesday, a panel of 11th circuit judges overturned the ruling the same circuit court made last year in U.S. vs. Davis, which found that obtaining Davis’ past cellphone location without a warrant violated his Fourth Amendment right to privacy. The new ruling instead finds that because Davis’ phone location data wasn’t Davis’ property, but the property of his phone carrier, MetroPCS—a legal argument known as the “third party doctrine”—he had no expectation of that data’s privacy, and the cops tracking him didn’t in fact need a warrant."*

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