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| Supreme Court rules law enforcement needs warrant to search cellphone data |
| 2018-06-23 |
| [The Hill] The Supreme Court ruled Friday that law enforcement in most cases has to obtain a warrant in order to search and seize long-term cell phone records that would show a person's location. In a 5-4 ruling, the court held that the Fourth Amendment's protections against an unreasonable search protects people from having the government acquire their cell-site records from wireless providers in run-of-the-mill criminal investigations. Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court's four liberal justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, to make up the majority. Justice Anthony Kennedy dissented along with conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch. The ruling marked a major win for privacy rights in the digital age. The case before the court centered on Timothy Carpenter, who argued the government violated his Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure when it obtained records from his wireless provider revealing his location over 127 days. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 A republic. If you can keep it. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-06-23 22:10 |
| #2 Should never have been any question. |
| Posted by: Bugs Angaviger1032 2018-06-23 18:29 |
| #1 Requiring a warrant to search cell phone records is a good thing. The ruling strengthens Constitutional rights. However, in today's times where judicial appointments have been partisan and political, this probably won't be much of an imediment to L.E. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-06-23 09:51 |