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Ross Ulbricht handed in his appeal to the Supreme Court this week, highlighting an important Analog Equivalent Privacy Right in the process: Just because you\u2019re using equipment that makes a third party aware of your circumstances, does that really nullify any expectation of privacy?<\/p>\n

In most constitutions, there\u2019s a protection of privacy of some kind. In the European Charter of Human Rights, this is specified<\/a> as having the right to private and family life, home, and correspondence. In the U.S. Constitution, it\u2019s framed slightly differently<\/a>, but with the same outcome: it\u2019s a ban for the government to invade privacy without good cause (\u201cunreasonable search and seizure\u201d).<\/p>\n

U.S. Courts have long held, that if you have voluntarily given up some part of your digitally-stored privacy to a third party, then you can no longer expect to have privacy in that area. When looking at analog equivalence for privacy rights, this doctrine is atrocious, and in order to understand just how<\/em> atrocious, we need to go back to the dawn of the manual telephone switchboards.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the telephone age, switchboards were fully manual. When you requested a telephone call, a manual switchboard operator<\/a> would manually connect the wire from your telephone to the wire of the receiver\u2019s telephone, and crank a mechanism that would make that telephone ring. The operators could hear every call if they wanted and knew who had been talking to whom and when.<\/p>\n

Did you give up your privacy to a third party when using this manual telephone service? Yes, arguably, you did. Under the digital doctrine applied now, phonecalls would have no privacy at all, under any circumstance. But as we know, phonecalls are<\/em> private. In fact, the phonecall operators were oathsworn<\/em> to never utter the smallest part of what they learned on the job about people\u2019s private dealings \u2014 so seriously was privacy considered, even by the companies running the switchboards.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Interestingly enough, this \u201cthird-party surrender of privacy\u201d doctrine seems to have appeared the moment the last switchboard operator left their job for today\u2019s automated phone-circuit switches. This was as late as 1983<\/a>, just at the dawn of digital consumer-level technology such as the Commodore 64<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This false equivalence alone should be sufficient to scuttle the doctrine of \u201cvoluntarily\u201d surrendering privacy to a third party in the digital world, and therefore giving up expectation of privacy: the equivalence in the analog world was the direct opposite.<\/em><\/p>\n

But there\u2019s more to the analog equivalent of third-party-service privacy. Somewhere in this concept is the notion that you\u2019re voluntarily choosing<\/em> to give up your privacy, as an active informed act<\/em> \u2014 in particular, an act that stands out of the ordinary<\/em>, since the Constitutions of the world are very clear that the ordinary default case is that you have an expectation of privacy.<\/p>\n

In other words, since people\u2019s everyday lives are covered by expectations of privacy, there must be something outside<\/em> of the ordinary that a government can claim gives it the right to take away somebody\u2019s privacy. And this \u201coutside the ordinary\u201d has been that the people in question were carrying a cellphone<\/em>, and so \u201cvoluntarily\u201d gave up their right to privacy, as the cellphone gives away their location to the network operator by contacting cellphone towers.<\/p>\n

But carrying a cellphone is expected behavior<\/em> today. It is completely within the boundaries of \u201cordinary\u201d. In terms of expectations, this doesn\u2019t differ much from wearing jeans or a jacket. This leads us to the question; in the thought experiment that yesterday\u2019s jeans manufacturers had been able to pinpoint your location, had it been reasonable for the government to argue that you give up any expectation of privacy when you\u2019re wearing jeans?<\/em><\/p>\n

No. No, of course it hadn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not like you\u2019re carrying a wilderness tracking device for the express purpose of rescue services to find you during a dangerous hike. In such a circumstance, it could be argued that you\u2019re voluntarily carrying a locator device. But not when carrying something that everybody is expected to carry \u2014 indeed, something that everybody must<\/em> carry in order to even function<\/em> in today\u2019s society.<\/p>\n

When the only alternative to having your Constitutionally-guaranteed privacy is exile from modern society, a government should have a really thin case. Especially when the analog equivalent \u2014 analog phone switchboards \u2014 was never fair game in any case.<\/p>\n

People deserve Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights.<\/p>\n

Until a government recognizes this and voluntarily surrenders a power it has taken itself, which isn\u2019t something people should hold their breath over, privacy remains your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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