Supreme Court rules privacy protections apply to cellphone location history
21 days ago
- Supreme Court ruled that constitutional privacy protections apply to cellphone location history.
- Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the 6-3 majority that users do not forfeit privacy by using ordinary phone features.
- Justice Samuel Alito dissented, arguing no expectation of privacy for voluntarily shared data.
- The case involved a bank robber identified via geofence warrant tracking cellphones near the crime scene.
- The Court did not decide Fourth Amendment compliance and sent the case back to a lower court.