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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast
Episode: Lawfare Archive: Matthew Tokson on Government Purchases of Private Data
Description: From December 4, 2023: Is the Fourth Amendment doing any work anymore? In aĀ forthcoming articleĀ entitledĀ āGovernment Purchases of Private Data,ā Matthew Tokson, a professor at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, details how, in recent years, federal and state agencies have begun to purchase location information and other consumer data, as government attorneys have mostly concluded that purchasing data is a valid way to bypass Fourth Amendment restrictions.Ā LawfareĀ Senior Editor Stephanie Pell sat down with Matthew to discuss this article, where he attempts to bring this constitutional evasion to light. They talked about the...