The Supreme Court has refused to obtain a case of Coinbase’s user privacy privacy

The United States Supreme Court has refused to take long -term privacy case involving an internal income service (IRS) Request data to thousands of Coinbase customers.

In a Monday order, Justices rejected a petition for a certiorari-essential, a green light to appeal to the Apela’s court decision-from a Coinbase customer who said the IRS notes of 2016 violated his fourth amendment rights, providing protection to Americans from unjust government searches and seizures.

The plaintiff, James “Jim” Harper, at first Filed suit Against the IRS in 2020, almost a year after him and thousands of other Coinbase customers Received letters from the IRS.

In his suit, Harper claimed to be the so-called “John Doe Summons”-which the agency uses to sniff the potential tax violations of unknown individuals by forcing financial institutions to provide them with records and other information that the agency can use to identify potential violators of the coinbase is not constitution.

“Where the authorities lack a person’s private papers even with the use of a subpoena, the Internal Revenue Service has now obtained the power to request access to anyone’s private information without any judicial process,” Harper’s lawyers wrote in their suit. “The IRS demands access even when a person enters a contract with a third party promising to protect his private information from the said interference.”

In 2021, a New Hampshire district court threw Harper’s suit, talking to the IRS. Harper appealed, and in 2023, a unique judge of the New Hampshire District Court court who reiterated the IRS and removed the case, writing: “As recently -the Supreme Court has recently proven them,” they have been given unpaid taxes and the people who are indebted, ‘Congress has given the extensive latitudes to call. or relief beyond the existing Congress and judiciary imposed “care” and evaluated the IRS powers. “

Harper appealed again, and in 2024, an appeal to the US confirmed the lower court’s decision to overthrow the case. In February, Harper filed a petition for a certiorari letter with the Supreme Court, his last chance to get another result in a long legal battle.

Since Harper’s petition was filed in February, a slew of high-profile think tanks and companies including Coinbase and X filed amicus briefs in the case, arguing that the Supreme Court should take the case and review the so-called third-party doctrine, a legal principle dating back to a 1976 Supreme Court decision decision Stating that individuals have no reasonable expectation of privacy for information voluntarily shared with a third party, meaning that government agencies can access such information without a warrant or possible cause without violating the fourth amendment.

However, the Supreme Court is not moving. It did not provide additional information or justification for the order this Monday that denied Harper’s petition, writing simply:

“The petition for a certiorari letter was rejected.”