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June 22, 2018 03:50 pm GMT
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Supreme Court rules police need a warrant to access a suspect's cellphone location data
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 today that police cannot freely access people's cellphone location data, regardless if they are suspected for a crime.
Police have always needed court-approved warrants before searching people's phones (due to the search and seizure protections under the Fourth Amendment), but they routinely breeched that protocol by accessing data from wireless carriers without a court's permission.
Phone privacy rights — from wiretaps to location data — have long been debated in the courts, so today's ruling is a symbolic win for privacy advocates and somewhat of an upset for law enforcement. Read more...
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