Court Rules That Cops Can Track Your Phone’s Location With No Warrant

A Union Margaret Court justruledthat if your common carrier ’s towers can see you , the police can see you too . They do n’t need a guarantee to track your all over the commonwealth . All they need is a gumshoe stamped request for the information from your carrier .

In 2006 , Melvin Skinner was busted in a motorhome with more than 1000 pound of mourning band . He ’s been attempting to overturn the strong belief because the police tracked his burner phone to a Texas rest stop . When the police knock on the door , Skinner did n’t allow them in , but a K-9 quickly set up likely cause and Skinner was arrested .

The drug dealer argued that tracking his location was a warrantless hunt and a misdemeanor of his Fourth Amendment rights . He appealed the conviction up to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals , butthe court disagreed :

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There is no inherent constitutional difference between trailing a suspect and track him via such technology . Law enforcement tactic must be allowed to advance with technological change , so as to prevent outlaw from circumventing the justice system .

In other tidings , the court ruled that because the police could have perform the tracking via visual surveillance , there was no violation . We should observe that this utilize only to the position information . The content of any calls or data transmission you make is still protect .

There are a few troublesome parts of this case , but perhaps the most problematic is the second half of the motor hotel ’s financial statement above . Yes , maybe the ruler of law enforcement take to germinate with engineering but that does n’t mean that the court should coalesce the information police can see with the data that ’s accumulate remotely . Furthermore , why is positioning data different than other information ? The court ’s made an arguing in one direction , but and unfortunately , it ’s arguing in favor of spying . [ Sixth Circuit Court of AppealviaArs Technica ]

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