{"id":18228,"date":"2015-08-01T07:21:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T12:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18228"},"modified":"2015-08-01T07:21:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T12:21:14","slug":"ars-technica-warrantless-mobile-phone-location-tracking-heads-to-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18228","title":{"rendered":"ars technica: Warrantless mobile phone location tracking heads to Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ars technica: <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2015\/07\/warrantless-mobile-phone-location-tracking-heads-to-supreme-court\/\">Warrantless mobile phone location tracking heads to Supreme Court<\/a> by David Kravets:<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/search.aspx?filename=\/docketfiles\/15-146.htm\">SCOTUS case no. 15-146<\/a>, docketed July 31]<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The US Supreme Court is being asked to resolve once and for all whether the authorities need a court warrant under the Fourth Amendment to obtain a suspect&#8217;s cell-site location data records.<\/p>\n<p>The case the justices were asked to review Friday concerns a Florida man who got a life term for several robberies in a 2012 case built with his mobile phone&#8217;s location data the police obtained without a warrant.<\/p>\n<p>The case has big privacy implications for anybody who carries a mobile phone. According to the government, that device may be tracked at will without the Fourth Amendment&#8217;s probable cause standard being met.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, the petition to the high court from defendant Quartavious Davis comes as cell-site tracking has become a choice surveillance tool in the aftermath of a Supreme Court ruling that said the authorities needed a warrant to affix GPS trackers to vehicles. In that 2012 decision, the high court declared that the government&#8217;s act of affixing a GPS device on a vehicle was the equivalent of a search usually requiring a warrant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ars technica: Warrantless mobile phone location tracking heads to Supreme Court by David Kravets: [SCOTUS case no. 15-146, docketed July 31]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-site-location-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18229,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18228\/revisions\/18229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}