Supreme Court decides against warrantless location searches in a major privacy decision

In a major decision on privacy in the digital age, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 ruling today that police must obtain a warrant to obtain cellphone location records. The case, Carpenter v. United States, has been closely watched for its Fourth Amendment implications, and centered on whether there was a reasonable expectation of privacy when location records were hold by a third party. The court ruled 5-4 "Given the unique nature of cell phone location records, the fact that the information is held by a third party does not by itself overcome the user's claim to Fourth Amendment protection," the opinion reads. The court said in its majority opinion that the decision was a narrow one, but the ruling is still notable for how it will... Continue reading… via The Verge - Tech Posts https://ift.tt/2IhTWwO If New feed item from http://www.theverge.com/tech/rss/index.xml, t