Every time you tweet or watch a YouTube clip on your smartphone, it effectively reveals your location to your carrier. Is this location information private? In a recently published article, Verizon’s top lawyer argues that the courts need to address this crucial question.
In an op-ed for Bloomberg Big Law Business, published Oct. 7, Verizon general counsel Craig Silliman discussed the lasting impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings on privacy in the late 1970s. The court held that the government does not need a warrant to see the phone numbers someone has dialed, reasoning that we voluntarily convey the phone number to a third party (the phone company) and therefore can’t reasonably expect that information to be private—a concept known as the “third party doctrine.”
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