Third-party doctrine - Wikipedia (en.m.wikipedia.org)
from altair222@beehaw.org to privacy@lemmy.ca on 06 Mar 2023 08:28
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The third-party doctrine is a United States legal doctrine that holds that people who voluntarily give information to third parties—such as banks, phone companies, internet service providers (ISPs), and e-mail servers—have “no reasonable expectation of privacy” in that information.

A lack of privacy protection allows the United States government to obtain information from third parties without a legal warrant and without otherwise complying with the Fourth Amendment prohibition against search and seizure without probable cause and a judicial search warrant.[1]