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Elon Musk’s X asks Supreme Court to shield users from US government
Elon Musk’s social media company X has asked the Supreme Court to shield its users from US law enforcement, intervening in a case that could force the federal government to produce a warrant to access private data.
In a brief filed to the high court, X said it was concerned about “broad, suspicionless” requests, adding that platforms should “not be coerced into helping governments undermine their users’ privacy”.
The supporting brief, filed on Friday, comes in a long-running case brought by James Harper, a user of crypto exchange Coinbase. He claims he was one of thousands of Coinbase clients whose trading data was handed to the Internal Revenue Service as part of a “fishing expedition” by the agency into potential tax fraud, in violation of the site’s privacy policies.
A win for the plaintiff in the case, which the Supreme Court has not yet agreed to hear, would restrict the US government — of which Musk is a part — from compelling data to be handed over by X without “probable cause and particularised suspicion”.
… The timing of the intervention by X — the only individual corporation to have filed a brief in the case to date — is notable given the Trump administration’s use of public material on social media to vet migrants.
The Department of Homeland Security last month proposed broadening the collection of social media account handles from visa applicants and those wishing to apply for residence in the US.
How not to do it?
Arkansas Social Media Verification Law Struck Down by Judge (1)
Arkansas’ youth-focused Social Media Safety Act infringes on the First Amendment rights of internet users and is unconstitutionally vague, a federal trial court judge ruled in a victory for Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. and other social media companies.
The law—known as Act 689— required certain social media companies to verify the ages of those in the state seeking to create an account and check to ensure that minors have parental permission. However the law isn’t narrowly tailored to address the state’s interests in protecting minors from objectionable content, the US District Court for the Western District of Arkansas said.
“Rather than targeting content that is harmful to minors, Act 689 simply impedes access to content writ large,” Judge Timothy L. Brooks said.
(Related) Also too broad?
ACLU urges 2nd Circuit to rethink no-warrant cellphone searches at US border
Erik Uebelacker reports:
A Fourth Amendment carveout that gives U.S. Border Patrol agents the right to conduct warrantless searches shouldn’t apply to cellphones and laptops, the American Civil Liberties Union argued to a Second Circuit panel on Monday.
The “border search exception” allows federal officers to search people and items entering the United States, without reasonable suspicion or probable cause. But the ACLU says digital device searches don’t count because they “can reveal the mine run of somebody’s life.”
“It’s like searching someone’s home,” ACLU lawyer Esha Bhandari told the court. “It’s like searching the entire contents of someone’s mind.”
Read more at Courthouse News.
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