Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2020
Abstract
In the spirit of Professor Tokson's effort to consider the next wave of Fourth Amendment cases likely to reach the Supreme Court, this essay addresses a looming technological challenge to the Court's third-party doctrine: the permissions that app developers obtain on our digital devices. Such permissions - which are either granted by the user upon installation of the app or permitted by the operating system without any user input - entitle app developers to access and send data from the device, such as the user's location services, motion sensors, contacts, calendars, social media accounts, camera, or microphone. Carpenter contracted the third-party doctrine when government investigators collect location information emitted by a citizen's cell phone to connect with towers in the nearby area. This Article considers what that decision portends for information government investigators might collect from a citizen's cell phone and the apps that make it both enormously convenient and potentially intrusive upon personal privacy.
Publication Title
Washburn L. J.
Volume
59
First Page
1
Recommended Citation
Gentithes, Michael, "App Permissions & the Third-Party Doctrine (symposium)" (2020). Akron Law Faculty Publications. 305.
https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/ua_law_publications/305
