Metadata and the Fourth Amendment

Metadata and the Fourth Amendment
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Metadata and the Fourth Amendment
Part I. Metadata and the Fourth Amendment
I think that the protection provided by the Fourth Amendment leaves much room for interpretation of privacy and metadata. The Fourth Amendment protects individuals, their properties, and effects. If I were sitting in the court, I could have used the metadata from police to convict Plumber. The Fourth Amendment protects people and their properties. In the case of Plumber, police did not seize his phone for a search warrant. Instead, police used metadata from the telecommunication company to place Plumber at the scene of the crime. Metadata is a series of traces that one leaves behind when connected or when connected to a network. Seizure of metadata does not fall within the protection by the Fourth Amendment. Police did not take Plumber’s phone to search it without a warrant. Instead, they obtain metadata from the third party, the service provider in this case.
Telephone service providers store metadata for varying reasons, but the primary reason if for sale to third parties. Since...