Court Says Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Is A-Okay

Do you like privacy ? You ’re going to detest this word . A federal courtjust ruledthat law enforcement does n’t call for a warrant to hold mobile phone tower location data . This is just a year after the same Union court ruled thatit did need a warrant , a movesome called the biggest privacy win in recent memory . Now it is a loss .

The ruling came down from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and is based on legal precedents from the seventies . Invokingthe so - called “ third company doctrine,”the royal court ruled that the government did not violate the Fourth Amendment when it obtained cell phone book without a warrantee in decree to track the movements of a suspected ( and by and by convicted ) fortify robber over a period of 67 days . The lack of warrant was justified , the court now say , since the data was possessed by a third political party . “ We discover no cause to reason that cellphone user lack facts about the function of cell pillar or about telephony providers ’ enter cell tower usage,”saidCircuit Judge Frank M. Hull .

you may imagine the implications . If you ’re giving data to a third party signify that the government can receive that data without a guarantee , that would mean that your private Facebook posts , YouTube videos , Wikipedia edit , Amazon purchases , or pretty much anything you do online could be fair biz . “ The implication of lend oneself the third party doctrine to these digital record are really wide reaching , ” Nate Wessler , the ACLU lawyer who argued the pillow slip , told Motherboard , “ because we live so much of our lives online , in the swarm or using technology that bequeath a trail of digital breadcrumbs behind us . ”

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The only Leslie Townes Hope now is for the Supreme Court to take on the case and turn over this bad news decision . We know that the Justices believe copsneed a warranty to explore jail cell telephone . Whether or not they give care to get into the particular of how cell phones do work stay to be seen . Then again , we also know that Union jurist cerebrate everybody cognize how cell towers memory board data .

So why would we be so broken about the government being able to get across our every move without a warrant anyways ? Because the government sucks at enabling the law to keep up with technological innovation — and it ’s time to reconsider how the third political party philosophy might work in an internet - connected Earth . That ’s why .

[ AP , Motherboard ]

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