The Supreme Court will decide if cops need a warrant for cellphone location data
June 5, 2017 | Uncategorized

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In a decision today, the Supreme Court said it would hear arguments on law enforcement’s controversial use of historical cell tower location data, in a case that may have major privacy law implications.
The case centers around a practice that allows police to gather historical cellphone location information without a warrant, by instead invoking a controversial statute called the Stored Communications Act. Telecommunications companies provide law enforcement with location data that can reveal where a person’s mobile device was at a given time, which civil liberties groups argue infringes on the Fourth Amendment. In the case the court agreed to hear, a robbery suspect was convicted after…