After the Ban

Reading the Platform, Part 12: The Supreme Court Just Called Your Location Data Your Own — Under the Fourth Amendment

lintara / July 7, 2026

On June 29, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled that even brief observation of where your body has moved is a search under the Fourth Amendment. Chatrie v. United States, 6–3, Justice Kagan. A real win — and, by the Court’s own choice, only half of one.

After the Ban

They Wrote It Down: Privacy, and the Door Built Into Their Own Policy

lintara / June 21, 2026

A reader asked whether deleting an account makes it vanish. It doesn’t — and the answer runs straight through Substack’s and Stripe’s own policies. They wrote down what they hand over, and to whom. Here we read it back to them.