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jvagle.me
The Court correctly observes that Google's Location History service is not only *like* CSLI (see Carpenter), but it reveals SO MUCH MORE information about the cellphone holder.
First, Location History provides an even more fine-tuned picture of a person’s movements than CSLI. Carpenter noted that through CSLI records, police could “achieve[] near perfect surveillance” of an individual holding a cell phone. Id., at 311–312. But Location History is nearer per- fect still. Here is one way of comparing the two: At any given time, CSLI placed Carpenter within a “sector ranging from one-eighth to four square miles,” whereas Location History pinpointed Chatrie’s location within around twenty meters, which is less than two percent of a mile. Id., at 312; see 1 App. 45, 3 id., at 173–174. Or here is anoth
June 29, 2026 at 2:55 PM
hipcrimevocab.net
Yeah I see the argument they are making but it’s a far cry from “this isn’t CSLI” to “this is knowingly exposed to the public.”
January 8, 2026 at 5:07 PM
orinkerr.bsky.social
NEW AT SSRN: With the geofence warrant case being argued at SCOTUS this spring, I'm pleased to post Chapter 9 of "The Digital Fourth Amendment," on how courts should interpret Carpenter v. United States, the CSLI case—and how to apply it.
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February 27, 2026 at 9:24 PM
malicedafirenze.bsky.social
ancient horses were smaller than you think, and there's some reasonable arguments to be made to suspect that they were gaited too. Another fascinating interview about the overlaps of horsemanship, history and archeology, highly recommend 🙏💖

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Historian and Our Biggest Misconceptions About Ancient Horses- Interview
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May 31, 2026 at 1:23 PM
sbarky.bsky.social
I designed a mascot for the UC Davis REALOP Cubesat Project! It will be launched through the NASA CSLI program, and its mission is to demonstrate using a hard drive disk as a low-cost reaction wheel. Here's a photo of the flight computer PCB with my silkscreen drawing and an acrylic standee of her!
December 6, 2024 at 6:42 AM
jvagle.me
SO MUCH MORE
measure: CSLI logged Carpenter’s location an average of 101 times a day, whereas Location History commonly rec- ords a person’s location every two minutes, for a daily aver- age of 720 chartings. See Carpenter, 585 U. S., at 302; 136 F. 4th, at 151 (Berner, J., concurring). Or finally, a third: Unlike CSLI, Location History can estimate a phone’s ele- vation—so, for example, can tell whether someone has gone into a doctor’s office on the first floor of a multi-story build- ing, or a private apartment on the tenth. Of course, the accuracy of each of the two techniques may vary in different places and at different times. But across the board Location History is the far more precise measure. When the Carpen- ter Court said that CSLI provides a “detailed” and “encyclo- pedic” portrait of a person’s whereabouts, it did not know what further technology was on the horizon. 585 U. S., at 309.
June 29, 2026 at 2:55 PM
linguistlist.bsky.social
FYI: Open Access Books: Konstanz-CSLI
FYI: Open Access Books: Konstanz-CSLI
As a result of a cooperation between Miriam Butt at the University of Konstanz and CSLI Publications we are in the process of making books previously published by CSLI Publications completely Open Access. The books so far mainly comprise words edited or written by Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King, but we are slowly expanding our efforts. The current collection of newly Open Access books can be found at: https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/csli-konstanz/index.html
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September 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
techdirt.com
FBI Tells Senate It’s Still Bypassing 4th Amendment By Purchasing Location Data From Third Parties

In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that warrants were needed to obtain cell site location info (CSLI). That decision dealt with law enforcement's warrantless acquisition of 127 days of location data…
FBI Tells Senate It’s Still Bypassing 4th Amendment By Purchasing Location Data From Third Parties
In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that warrants were needed to obtain cell site location info (CSLI). That decision dealt with law enforcement's warrantless acquisition of 127 days of location data from a cell service provider. As the court saw it, the government was leveraging access to this data to turn cell phones (which has been given heightened protections with the…
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March 27, 2026 at 5:58 PM
mjsdc.bsky.social
Applying the Katz test, the majority holds that individuals have a reasonable expectation of privacy in our cell phone location information, so the government conducts a 4th Amendment "search" when it invades that privacy. I think that's pretty clearly correct. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
For all those reasons, we hold that police officers invade a cell-phone user’s reasonable expectation of privacy when they access his Location History. It does not matter if the time period scrutinized was only two hours. Nor does it matter that the materials obtained were handed over by a third-party tech company. When the government “accesses historical cell phone” location information—Location History as much as CSLI—it “conducts a search under the Fourth Amendment.” Carpenter, 585 U. S., at 300.
June 29, 2026 at 2:15 PM
robinince.bsky.social
Time to build that industrial cooling tower - first Oxfam purchase of 2026
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January 3, 2026 at 1:29 PM
friendleemarie53.bsky.social
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Cory Booker EXPOSES Emil Bove For Lying Under Oath In Explosive Senate Hearing
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October 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
nero-wolfe.bsky.social
Flock and ALPRs are a scourge and should be banned nationwide or at least treated like CSLI for Fourth Amendment purposes. It was inevitable that these surveillance networks would be turned on law-abiding people seeking abortions, immigrants, etc.
joedudekjd.bsky.social Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · Oct 7
Texas law enforcement used a nationwide network of 83,000 traffic cameras to build a case against a woman for aborting her fetus. Aborting her fetus is not a crime in Texas. And then everyone involved lied about it to the public.
October 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
kmosser.bsky.social
CSLI estimated at least $6 million
September 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
jtlg.bsky.social
Love to have technically detailed issues of national importance decided by judges who casually compare a measure of area to a measure of distance.
Here is one way of comparing the two: At any given time, CSLI placed Carpenter within a “sector ranging from one-eighth to four square miles,” whereas Location History pinpointed Chatrie’s location within around twenty meters, which is less than two percent of a mile.
June 30, 2026 at 6:02 PM
jvagle.me
Back to Chatrie opinion.

The Court points out that location data can be used by police (or anyone with the data) to create a *retrospective* picture of your life at almost zero cost.

In a pre-cellphone sense, this is like a police officer tailing everyone all the time.
And next, Location History also allows police officers to reconstruct “retrospective[ly],” and with no real effort, peo- ple’s comings and goings in any area. Id., at 312. As with CSLI, the Government need not decide in advance the kind of surveillance it should undertake, whether of a person or a site. “Whoever the suspect turns out to be,” Carpenter said of CSLI, “he has effectively been tailed every moment of every day.” Ibid. Likewise, as this case shows, wherever a location of interest turns out to be (whether a crime scene or a protest march or even a private home), it has effectively been surveilled for the same boundless time. Google’s Lo- cation History will be available to chart the movements of many individuals—or a few or one—within the vicinity, again at the “click of a button.” Id., at 311. Recall that in Jones, it was thought notable that law enforcement officials of an earlier age usually could not monitor every movement of an individual’s car, as a GPS device does. See supra, at 14–15; 565 U. S., at 430 (opinion of ALITO, J.); see also Car- penter, 585 U. S., at 312 (“In the past, attempts to recon- struct a person’s [prior] movements were limited”). F
June 29, 2026 at 3:05 PM
orinkerr.bsky.social
Officers request CSLI to ping murder suspect w/o a warrant, submit form to allow warrantless disclosure under the SCA. SC SCT: At the very least, the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applied b/c the SCA allows emergency exception. sccourts.org/media/opinio... #N
January 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
dhampiric.bsky.social
csli♡ ︎

me putting off watching arcane to the end because i wouldn't be able to handle it... GAAAAAAAHHHH
November 29, 2024 at 7:43 AM
davidgrover.bsky.social
There's an intellectual history to write about the evolution of the thinking of the philosophy, compsci, linguistics, sociology, psychology profs that taught this generation of VCs at Stanford and got a lot of their salary through csli.
October 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
hourlycosmos.bsky.social
ELaNa XIV CubeSats Launch on JPSS-1 Mission - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/21Dt9Y7
NASA has launched four small research satellites, or CubeSats, developed by four universities as part of a broader mission launching the next generation polar-orbiting satellite to space. These CubeSat missions were selected through the CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) as part of the 14th installment of the Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) missions. The ELaNa XIV mission is an auxiliary payload on the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) mission, a collaborative effort between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA. JPSS-1 lifted off Nov. 18, 2017 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 1:47 a.m. PST (4:47 a.m. EST). Over the past four years, university students have been involved in the design, development and construction of the CubeSats that will be jettisoned into space from spring-loaded deployers. Read more NASA Media Usage Guidelines
September 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
tovahr.bsky.social
youtube.com/watch?v=CslI...

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Cory Booker EXPOSES Emil Bove For Lying Under Oath In Explosive Senate Hearing
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October 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
dhampiric.bsky.social
csli♡ ︎

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December 3, 2024 at 5:10 PM
jvagle.me
Kagan: Doesn't Carpenter address location?

Govt: We did what Carpenter instructed--we got a warrant

K: But you say you didn't need a warrant

G: Carpenter was CSLI was price of having a cell phone

K: So standard is that no one can live without the device?
April 27, 2026 at 3:17 PM
gabrielmalor.bsky.social
5th Cir. holds that use of a licence plate reader to obtain a vehicle's location data does not invade any reasonable expectation of privacy and so therefore does not constitute a 4A search. No warrant required.

www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
than to the CSLI at issue in Carpenter. True, the LPR system allows the government to access an historical record for some time, and that type of retrospective data can allow police to “travel back in time to retrace a person’s whereabouts” without needing to “know in advance whether they want to follow a particular individual, or when.”9 But the LPR technology in the instant case provides only periodic information about a vehicle’s location when a vehicle passes one of its ten locations where an LPR camera is stationed in Gautier and is much more limited than CSLI and geofence10 data, which is capable of capturing a greater volume of comprehensive information with a higher degree of quality and precision.11
March 17, 2026 at 11:27 PM
jvagle.me
But, govt argues, services like Location History are "voluntary," unlike CSLI, so TPD should apply.

Court takes issue with what "voluntary" means in today's connected device sense.
the lion’s share of cell-phone users enabled a feature similar to the one at issue—so, for example, any location-tracking service, whether Google’s or some other company’s? And finally, a more basic inquiry: In such a world, how is any- one—whether a cell-phone user or a police officer—to know in advance (which is when the knowledge is useful) whether enrollees in a given service will be found to have Fourth Amendment protection in the information that service col- lects? To ask all these questions about the Government’s approach is to know that it is on the wrong track. And there is yet a deeper problem: The Government’s app-by-app, feature-by-feature method of granting Fourth Amendment protection misapprehends the very nature of modern cell-phone use. Pretty much everything a person does on a smartphone requires some kind of opt-in—an “af- firmative act” beyond “powering up” to utilize a given app or service. Carpenter, 585 U. S., at 315. Consider sending an email on Gmail, uploading a photo to Google Photos, or adding a calendar entry to Google Calendar. None happens solely by dint of the phone’s operation; each requires, as Lo- cation History does, an “optional add-on.” Brief for United States 13. And each activity, like using Location History, results in sharing information with a third-party tech com- pany—turning over private materials to live on that com- pany’s servers. The Government wishes to disconnect all those uses from the mere act of carrying a turned-on cell phone (the thing that generates CSLI), with only the latter receiving assured Fourth Amendment protection. But that is to imagine that all of us are living in dumb flip-phone days. The point of carrying smartphones is to use what is on them—as Carpenter said, to use the apps and “services they provide.” 585 U. S., at 315. That is what has become a “pervasive and insistent”—even “indispensable”—“part of daily life.” Ibid.; Riley, 573 U. S., at 385. And so that is what Carpenter insulated from the…
June 29, 2026 at 3:21 PM
thomasarnold.bsky.social
The work at CSLI from early-to-mid 80's is quite prophetic toward LLM's.
April 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM