{"id":21569,"date":"2016-04-04T14:46:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T19:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21569"},"modified":"2016-04-04T14:46:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T19:46:09","slug":"wapo-applying-the-fourth-amendment-to-cell-site-simulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21569","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Applying the Fourth Amendment to cell-site simulators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2016\/04\/04\/applying-the-fourth-amendment-to-cell-site-simulators\/\">Applying the Fourth Amendment to cell-site simulators<\/a> by Orin Kerr:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The widespread use of cellphones gives the government a way to locate criminal suspects using a device known as a cell-site simulator. The Maryland Court of Special Appeals recently handed down the first appellate decision on whether and when use of a cell-site simulator to identify the location of a target\u2019s phone is a Fourth Amendment \u201csearch.\u201d The opinion, in State v. Andrews, rules that government use of a cell-site simulator is always a Fourth Amendment search and that it ordinarily requires a warrant.<\/p>\n<p>I think that result is plausible, but I found the court\u2019s path to that result rather frustrating. This post explains why.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Applying the Fourth Amendment to cell-site simulators by Orin Kerr: The widespread use of cellphones gives the government a way to locate criminal suspects using a device known as a cell-site simulator. The Maryland Court of Special Appeals recently &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21569\">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-21569","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\/21569","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=21569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21570,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21569\/revisions\/21570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}