Fear and loathing and a dude named “Third Party”

Dissent, over at PogoWasRight, has a good post on what I see as the most problematic characteristic of privacy law in the United States. Under American constitutional jurisprudence, as soon as you hand personal information over to a third party, you lose all expectation that it will be kept private. That makes it fair game for the authorities to compel it, subject only to antiquated statutes like the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Read on: Fear and loathing and a dude named “Third Party” | Privacy News - PogoWasRight.org.