{"id":18442,"date":"2015-08-14T10:12:47","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T15:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18442"},"modified":"2015-08-14T10:12:47","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T15:12:47","slug":"just-security-warrantless-phone-tracking-the-fourth-amendment-and-circuit-splits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18442","title":{"rendered":"Just Security: Warrantless Phone Tracking: The Fourth Amendment and Circuit Splits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just Security: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justsecurity.org\/25395\/warrantless-phone-tracking-fourth-amendment-circuit-splits\/\">Warrantless Phone Tracking: The Fourth Amendment and Circuit Splits<\/a> by Andy Wright:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last week, a divided three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit ruled in United States v. Graham that the government must obtain a warrant to obtain from a phone user\u2019s historical cell-site location information (CSLI) from a cell phone provider if the requested information covers \u201can extended period of time.\u201d The opinion by Judge Davis, joined by Judge Thacker, is an important milestone in the ongoing debate on government surveillance authority in the technology age as well as development of more traditional Fourth Amendment doctrine. Judge Motz dissented. As Orin Kerr notes, it also established multidimensional circuit splits that are ripening for Supreme Court review. Below are my thoughts about several lines of tension and contention raised by the Fourth Circuit opinion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just Security: Warrantless Phone Tracking: The Fourth Amendment and Circuit Splits by Andy Wright: Last week, a divided three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit ruled in United States v. Graham that the government must obtain a warrant to obtain from &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18442\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-18442","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\/18442","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=18442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18443,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18442\/revisions\/18443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}