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The Supreme Court seems a bit nervous about letting the police track you with your phone

Vox·Ian Millhiser·about 1 month ago
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If I’d only listened to the first half of the Supreme Court’s Monday argument in Chatrie v. United States , a case asking when police can use cellphone data to determine who was present near the site of a crime, I would be convinced that the Court is about to drastically limit Americans’ right to privacy. Most of the justices’ questions to Adam Unikowsky, the lawyer for a criminal defendant who was convicted of robbing a bank, appeared skeptical of Unikowsky’s claims that the Constitution places strict limits on the government’s ability to track people through their cellphones. Some of the justices even appeared likely to neutralize Carpenter v. United States (2018), a landmark case suggesting that police must obtain a warrant before they obtain cell phone data revealing where a person has been in the past. SCOTUS, Explained Get the latest developments on the US Supreme Court from senior correspondent Ian Millhiser.…

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