{"id":28564,"date":"2017-08-13T17:12:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T22:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28564"},"modified":"2017-08-13T17:12:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T22:12:57","slug":"techdirt-aclu-tells-court-long-term-cell-site-location-tracking-should-require-a-warrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28564","title":{"rendered":"Techdirt: ACLU Tells Court Long-Term Cell Site Location Tracking Should Require A Warrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Techdirt: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/sites\/default\/files\/field_document\/16-402_ts_1.pdf\">ACLU Tells Court Long-Term Cell Site Location Tracking Should Require A Warrant<\/a> by Tim Cushing:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Supreme Court is going to take a look at the Fourth Amendment implications of warrantless access to historic cell site location information. The outlook for a Fourth Amendment win isn&#8217;t particularly hopeful, given that there&#8217;s no circuit split to be resolved. The lone holdout was the Fourth Circuit &#8212; which originally had problems with the long-term collection of location information &#8212; but that court reversed its earlier decision to align with other circuits which have addressed the issue.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t mean no one should try! Who knows what the court might decide, especially given the shifting telecommunications landscape. After all, it has managed to budge the 4th a wee bit now and then, even in decisions that were mostly punts or calls for the aggrieved to take it up with their Congressional reps.<\/p>\n<p>The ACLU has filed a brief [PDF] on behalf of the appellants, pointing out what should be obvious: cell site location info isn&#8217;t Just Another Third Party Record. It&#8217;s a proxy tracking system for law enforcement, which can access this data without warrants. And it&#8217;s only getting more precise every day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Techdirt: ACLU Tells Court Long-Term Cell Site Location Tracking Should Require A Warrant by Tim Cushing:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,83,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-site-location-information","category-scotus","category-third-party-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28565,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28564\/revisions\/28565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}