Kansas Conservatives Fight 'Third-Party Doctrine' Tech Searches

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The third-party doctrine is a legal principle stating that individuals have no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding information they voluntarily disclose to a third party.

In other words, if someone gives their information to Venmo to pay the babysitter, the Internal Revenue Service can access that information without a warrant.

The Kansas Justice Institute — like the Sentinel, owned by the Kansas Policy Institute —  along with the Goldwater Institute and American Dream Legal, have filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a lawsuit by James Harper and the New Civil Liberties Alliance challenging the third-party doctrine.

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Kansas Justice Institute files amicus brief in U.S. Supreme Court over warrantless digital searches - The Sentinel

Some state supreme courts reject the third-party doctrine relating to digital searches.