No warrant is needed to get your phone's location data, U.S. appeals court rules #1yrago
In a major blow to security and privacy advocates, a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday ruled that police donāt have to have a warrant to obtain your cellphone location data. The ruling means that in America, you have zero expectation of privacy over the historical location data generated by your cell phone.
You can read the full ruling here.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)ās comment on the ruling is here.
Your mobile carrier captures and stores that information, and law enforcement agencies want access to it to catch and convict bad guys. With the appeals court ruling, now investigators donāt even have to get a warrant from a court before knocking on the door of your wireless providerās server room. The big concern is that this amounts to a systematic violation of the privacy and security rights of Americans who have done nothing wrong, and arenāt suspects, or shouldnāt be considered suspects.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia voted 12-3 that the government may get cellphone data, because of a decades-old legal theory that you have already willingly shared this data to a third partyā-your mobile service provider.
The U.S. Justice Department has not yet commented on the decision.
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