The polyrhythms do wonders for my ADHD
By which I mean "I wonder how I missed it for so long, given how much Tool I listen to"
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![phone user is not to be viewed as sharing private information with third parties—which then can be freely passed on to the government—just by doing the ordinary things cell-phone users do.
It’s important to unpack this passage, as it introduces a new concept into Fourth Amendment law that is likely to be at the center of a great deal of future litigation. According to this passage, there is a category of “ordinary things cell phone users do” that, across the board, is not to be deemed voluntarily disclosed to “third-party tech companies.” Our present society has a new thing—”modern-cell phone use,” not just from “dumb flip-phone[s],” but from smartphones that come with a “conventional” and “ordinary” set of services “on them.” “Activities” associated with those conventional services are, apparently en masse, “insulated from the third-party doctrine.”
This is head-scratching paragraph, and Section III will try to puzzle through what it might mean. But the key for now is that Chatrie creates a new constitutional category of “ordinary” or “conventional” uses of technology. The “ordinary” or “conventional” uses of common devices are treated with heightened Fourth Amendment protection, apparently making even factually knowing and voluntary disclosure of those uses to “third-party tech companies” not truly voluntary as a matter of law.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bvdrfwiamgi5leqs63q2duro/bafkreicapnclyr5abrc5nfnturgn5xbkjbzxvhrxiwyfjl7zemlvn5p63m)
