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Reason Foundation Issues Commentary: Third-Party Doctrine is Dying, Government Surveillance is Not
July 25, 2026
LOS ANGELES, California, July 25 -- The Reason Foundation issued the following commentary by technology policy analyst Nicole Shekhovtsova:

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The third-party doctrine is dying. Government surveillance is not

The strongest privacy protection, it turns out, isn't a warrant: It's when our data is never collected into a single vault.

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In its recent Chatrie v. United States decision, the Supreme Court held that obtaining . . .

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