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Courts Rule That Police Can Obtain Cell Location Data Without Warrant

  • Reuters, Wednesday, June 1, 2016 2:01 PM
A U.S. appeals court has ruled that police do not need a warrant to obtain a person's cellphone location data. “The full 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, voted 12-3 that the government can get the information under a decades-old legal theory that it had already been disclosed to a third party, in this case a telephone company,” Reuters reports.

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