U.S. court says no warrant needed for cellphone location data
Source: Reuters
Police do not need a warrant to obtain a person's cellphone location data held by wireless carriers, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday, dealing a setback to privacy advocates.
The full 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, voted 12-3 that the government can get the information under a decades-old legal theory that it had already been disclosed to a third party, in this case a telephone company.
The ruling overturns a divided 2015 opinion from the court's three-judge panel and reduces the likelihood that the Supreme Court would consider the issue.
The decision arose from several armed robberies in Baltimore and Baltimore County, Maryland, in early 2011, leading to the convictions of Aaron Graham and Eric Jordan.
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Technology | Tue May 31, 2016 2:31pm EDT
WASHINGTON | BY DUSTIN VOLZ
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)cstanleytech
(26,347 posts)be persuasive enough to get SCOTUS to agree to hear the case and if SCOTUS does hear it will they be able to convince them that the lower court made an error?
intrepidity
(7,346 posts)technology can travel halfway 'round the world before the law has even got it's boots on....
They need to get in synch or at least in the same hemisphere.
LiberalFighter
(51,263 posts)Democat
(11,617 posts)Not much moving around.
LiberalFighter
(51,263 posts)Or vice versa while using a desktop computer.
bananas
(27,509 posts)Last Friday, thousands protested Trump in San Diego. Police declared the protests unlawful and started arresting people. Now they'll be able to mass arrest (or fine) people after the fact, based on their cell phone location records.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Ignorance is Strength