<i>Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police (NYTimes)</i><p><a href="https://archive.ph/at9li" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://archive.ph/at9li</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19653647">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19653647</a> - April 2019 (203 comments)
This is really only a thing because of the third-party doctrine:<p>> The third-party doctrine is a United States legal doctrine that holds that people who voluntarily give information to third parties—such as banks, phone companies, internet service providers (ISPs), and e-mail servers—have "no reasonable expectation of privacy" in that information. A lack of privacy protection allows the United States government to obtain information from third parties without a legal warrant and without otherwise complying with the Fourth Amendment prohibition against search and seizure without probable cause and a judicial search warrant.<p>> The [United States Supreme Court] affirmed that "a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turns over to third parties."
How do you request what personal data of yours Google is storing in Sensorvault? Separately, is there a process to request that data be deleted short of deleting your entire Google Account?