Big Tech's Location Data Fetish Heads to Supreme Court
The NYT piece details the Supreme Court taking up a case concerning law enforcement access to phone location data. Of course, the real story isn't just about warrants for government agencies; it's about the vast, unregulated data hoards that corporations like Google and Apple have amassed, tracking every step we take. This isn't a new frontier for privacy; it's a battle for scraps, long after
Silicon Valley carved up the main course of our digital lives. While civil liberties advocates fight for warrants, the bigger picture remains: these corporations collect, sell, and monetize precise location data daily, often without express, informed consent. One might wonder if the government even *needs* a warrant when it can simply purchase the same datasets from opaque data brokers. The
Supreme Court's debate, while crucial for legal precedent, feels a bit like closing the barn door after the entire herd has been GPS-tagged and milked dry by private enterprise.