[HN Gopher] Intelligence Analysts Use U.S. Smartphone Location D...
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       Intelligence Analysts Use U.S. Smartphone Location Data Without
       Warrants
        
       Author : alexrustic
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2021-01-22 18:06 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
        
       | dunefox wrote:
       | I can't say that I'm surprised. If the data is available, it's
       | getting used - legal or not.
        
       | WarOnPrivacy wrote:
       | How awful is it that out of 535 members of Congress, only ~1 ever
       | gives a crap about US Gov's surveillance misdeeds?
        
       | LatteLazy wrote:
       | So do 101 other groups. Police and the FBI to name but a few. It
       | mostly affects poor people: a well off person will get a lawyer,
       | the lawyer will enter discovery and ask questions about how the
       | police knew. The case will be dropped. A public defender won't
       | have the time between the 400 other cases he has today.
       | 
       | https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/fbi-would-rather...
        
         | lumost wrote:
         | I'm curious if anyone will ever make an equal protection claim
         | based on this discrepancy. We're fast approaching a world where
         | those with the money can protect their rights and even throw up
         | procedural obstacles to prevent prosecution, and those without
         | money go to jail when their rights were violated.
         | 
         | At what point does the overwork of public defenders relative to
         | private counterparts become an equal protection issue?
        
           | LatteLazy wrote:
           | Class (or income/wealth or whatever you call it) is the
           | elephant in the room for a lot of US equality law. Sometimes
           | SCOTUS rules for it (eg when public defenders were first
           | required) but recently they've ruled solidly against it (eg
           | voter Id laws).
           | 
           | Personally I don't think the current US civil society would
           | wear such a classification and deciding the edges of it would
           | be messy.
           | 
           | But I think it's logically and morally correct.
           | 
           | It always surprises me when US colleges go on about diversity
           | of race but no one really takes much interest in diversity of
           | socioeconomic background.
           | 
           | Here in the UK we are similarly picky about what
           | discrimination is acceptable. Maybe in another generation or
           | two people will be ready for a more thorough review of
           | things.
        
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