The decision to vacate the ruling requiring a warrant...
The decision to vacate the ruling requiring a warrant to access cellphone location data doesn’t indicate the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will ultimately reverse the original decision, American Civil Liberties Union Legislative Counsel Chris Calabrese told us Friday.…
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“The full 11th Circuit will now take up this question, and we are hopeful that they agree with the original three-judge panel that police must get a warrant before collecting sensitive and detailed cellphone location data,” he said. Privacy and civil liberties advocates had hailed the ruling (CD June 13 p9) as providing some clarity in the legislatively stalled debate over the right to privacy of electronic data. “The Fourth Amendment privacy protections for our cellphone location information are an exceptionally important issue that courts across the country are just starting to address,” Calabrese said.