Tech Companies Urge Supreme Court To Boost Cellphone Privacy (reuters.com)

More than a dozen high technology companies and the biggest wireless operator in the United States, Verizon, have called on the U.S. Supreme Court to make it harder for government officials to access individuals' sensitive cellphone data. From a report: The companies filed a 44-page brief with the court on Monday night in a high-profile dispute over whether police should have to get a warrant before obtaining data that could reveal a cellphone user's whereabouts. Signed by some of Silicon Valley's biggest names, including Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Snap and Alphabet's Google, the brief said that as individuals' data is increasingly collected through digital devices, greater privacy protections are needed under the law. "That users rely on technology companies to process their data for limited purposes does not mean that they expect their intimate data to be monitored by the government without a warrant," the brief said.

Comments

LOL

[Anonymous Coward]

LOL, Pot.Kettle.Black.

Good luck with that.

[backslashdot]

They are better off purchasing a few senators and congresscritters.

Just give us better encryption

[fustakrakich]

Without that, all their pleas are extremely hollow. All this is a dog and pony show anyway. Where on the ledger does it show that it matters?

Make Congress use LCD carriers and cells

[WillAffleckUW]

Then they can feel the pain like us.

They don't like the competition.

[bravecanadian]

Heh.

Not just the GOV

[Tulsa_Time]

Every application on my phone wants to track my GPS coordinates...

They can turn around and sell it to anyone... including Government agencies.

Since when

[DaMattster]

Since when does big telecom care about our privacy. Most of the companies were complicit in the CALEA project.