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November 30, 2017

Supreme Court Weighs Police Tracking Cellphones Without Warrant
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The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case that could
determine whether police can access cellphone location data without a
warrant. The case, Carpenter v. United States, involves a man who was
convicted on burglary charges after police obtained more than 100 days
of his cell phone records, which showed his cell phone's location data
placed him at the scene of several crimes. During oral arguments,
justices appeared skeptical over the Trump administration's claims that
there's no reasonable expectation of privacy when an individual shares
cell phone information with a third party.


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