DamianTV
11-21-2011, 05:18 PM
http://mashable.com/2011/11/18/aclu-warrant-cell-phone/
Worried about the police tracking your whereabouts through your mobile records? They can’t — it’s unconstitutional. U.S. law enforcement agents do not have the right to access cellphone location records, a federal court ruled Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Lynn N. Hughes upheld a Texas district court’s decision that the constitution’s Fourth Amendment sets probable cause as the minimum for obtaining private records. A government request for asked for 60 days of travel information for certain mobile accounts probed the case.
In his ruling, Hughes wrote, “two months’ worth of hourly tracking data will inevitably reveal a rich slice of the user’s life, activities, and associations.”
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Worried about the police tracking your whereabouts through your mobile records? They can’t — it’s unconstitutional. U.S. law enforcement agents do not have the right to access cellphone location records, a federal court ruled Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Lynn N. Hughes upheld a Texas district court’s decision that the constitution’s Fourth Amendment sets probable cause as the minimum for obtaining private records. A government request for asked for 60 days of travel information for certain mobile accounts probed the case.
In his ruling, Hughes wrote, “two months’ worth of hourly tracking data will inevitably reveal a rich slice of the user’s life, activities, and associations.”
(more on link)