Stored Communications Act

Existing confidentiality isn't a magic impenetrable shield that you can invoke on a whim.

The loyalty first position has to confront hard statutes like the Stored Communications Act.

Which governs how tech companies have to hand over data to the government or civil litigants.

Yes.

And what they did was rather than get a warrant, they went to directly to the phone companies with what's known as a D order.

It's 2703D of the Stored Communications Act with a subpoena and said, we need there to one company said, I need 127 days of this person's cell site location information.

And to another company, I need seven days of this person's historical cell site location information.

And so it's a lot of data points that can show where someone has moved.