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Supreme Court Declines to Take Up Coinbase User Data Privacy Case

  • The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review James Harper's 2020 case against the IRS over privacy violations involving Coinbase user data in July 2025.
  • Harper challenged the IRS's John Doe summons that demanded transaction data from Coinbase users, alleging it violated Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches.
  • Lower courts dismissed Harper's case in 2021 and 2023, and courts affirmed the ruling in 2024, supporting broad IRS authority to access third-party shared information without a warrant.
  • Coinbase filed amicus briefs supporting Harper, arguing that sweeping data requests threaten digital privacy, while Coinbase's legal head Paul Grewal vowed to "continue the fight."
  • With no Supreme Court review, the rulings set a precedent allowing IRS extensive access to crypto transaction data, raising implications for digital privacy rights across financial platforms.
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Accounting Today broke the news in on Monday, June 30, 2025.
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