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Verizon Gave Phone Data to Armed Stalker Who Posed as Cop Over Email (www.404media.co)
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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because the telecommunications companies are eager to cooperate with the police. Since third-party doctrine applies, the privacy of the company, not the client, is considered, so Verizon happily consents to all police searches of phone records.

This has been discussed all the way up with SCOTUS (dominated by the Federalist Society at the time) so its legal.

[–] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh I’m not saying it’s illegal, just that it should be.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

On that we have no disagreement.