{"id":24755,"date":"2022-08-15T15:35:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T19:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/?p=887492"},"modified":"2022-08-15T15:35:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T19:35:41","slug":"2022s-lack-of-data-privacy-makes-1984-look-quaint-in-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/legal-innovation-center\/2022\/08\/15\/2022s-lack-of-data-privacy-makes-1984-look-quaint-in-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"2022’s (Lack Of) Data Privacy Makes 1984 Look Quaint In Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"wiretappingBig Brother watching you is old news. We grew up on it, we frequently make jokes about the FBI agent in our phones<\/a> and \u2014 if you permit me the honesty \u2014 I don’t really care if Biden + Friends happen to see my search history, God bless and God speed to the Commander in Chief if he clicks the link to the Chris Chan documentary<\/a> in my recent history. The scarier snooper, the one they neglected to warn us against when we did our 1984 readings, is the omnipresent meat-smoking aficionado<\/a> who goes by Mark Zuckerberg. We’ve already covered the danger that the Facebook x Police collab can pose to privacy<\/a>. While that case pertained to abortion, you should still be wary of the risk that your private conversations could be made public. End-to-end encryption isn’t the end-all answer.<\/p>\n

[S]omething we spend a great deal of time at Upturn researching, which is that more than 2,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States have these tools that are called mobile device forensic tools. And these tools are cellphone extraction tools that are a powerful technology that allow police to extract a full copy of data from your cellphone – so imagine all of your emails, all of your texts, all your photos, all of your locations, app data and more – which can then be searched by law enforcement. So I’d say to someone who’s worried that law enforcement won’t be able to get access just because Facebook says we’re going to deploy end-to-end encrypted messaging across our platform, is that that does not shut the door on law enforcement access, period. The unfortunate reality is that so many of us today have retained so much private information on our phone, and that can still be the subject of a search warrant by law enforcement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s a cause for concern, even if you\u2019re not planning to get an abortion or are having Facebook conversations about overthrowing the DHS because Orange Man got caught with papers he didn\u2019t have clearance for. It is important to be tech savvy \u2014 just because you think a conversation is protected or gone doesn\u2019t mean it is. Take Melvin, for instance.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Kinda. SNAP cant possibly keep a record of every single message people have sent since their inception. The data center required for such a task would rival the NSA\u2019s. However, they do keep a backdated log up to a year.<\/p>\n

— L\u00f8st Jewelz Ent.\u2122 (@LostJewelzEnt) July 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n