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Re:DoJ's Gag Order on Reason Has Been Lifted by schoen on Monday June 22, 2015 @07:07PM (#9761737)
It's true that in Smith v. Maryland "[t]he police did not get a warrant or court order before having the pen register installed", so the original case was a voluntary disclosure in that sense. But installing pen registers isn't voluntary at all these days:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen_register#Pen_Register_Act

So it's reasonable to speak of the third party doctrine being applied to compelled data disclosures, not just voluntary ones.

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