No Safe Harbor by United States Pirate Party

Author:United States Pirate Party
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: essay, police state, Pirate party, corporate personhood, copyright, privacy, patent, government, surveillance, accountability, music, p2p, transparency, politics, tsa, pirate, eff
Publisher: K`Tetch
Published: 2012-01-23T02:02:44+00:00

Importantly, the threat of infiltrators exists in the virtual world as well as the physical world: for example, a police officer may pose as a online "friend" in order to access your private social network profile.

Records stored by others. As the Supreme Court has stated, "The Fourth Amendment does not prohibit the obtaining of information revealed to a third party and conveyed by him to Government authorities, even if the information is revealed on the assumption that it will be used only for a limited purpose and the confidence placed in the third party will not be betrayed." This means that you will often have no Fourth Amendment protection in the records that others keep about you, because most information that a third party will have about you was either given freely to them by you, thus knowingly exposed, or was collected from other, public sources. It doesn’t necessarily matter if you thought you were handing over the information in confidence, or if you thought the information was only going to be used for a particular purpose.

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