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Supreme Court: Police Need Warrant for Mobile Location Data

June 22, 2018 admin 3Cinteractive, 4th Amendment, A Little Sunshine, Amy Howe, AT&T, Carpenter v. United States, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Jennifer Lynch, LocationSmart, SCOTUSblog.com, Securus Technologies, Sprint, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, The New York Times, U.S. Supreme Court, Verizon

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 20:30:13 +0000

The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that the government needs to obtain a court-ordered warrant to gather location data on mobile device users. The decision is a major development for privacy rights, but experts say it may have limited bearing on the selling of real-time customer location data by the wireless carriers to third-party companies.