{"id":15834,"date":"2016-06-01T16:40:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T21:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=15834"},"modified":"2016-06-01T16:40:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T21:40:58","slug":"surveillance-state-warrantless-cell-tracking-now-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/01\/surveillance-state-warrantless-cell-tracking-now-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"Surveillance State: Warrantless Cell Tracking Now Legal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>One more thing to check off in that very short list of &#8220;Reasonable Expectations of Privacy&#8221;. Whats Next I wonder? -SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15835\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/cell2.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"cell2\" width=\"620\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A split federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that police do not need a search warrant before obtaining cell tower location data that can trace the long-term movements of a suspect\u2019s mobile phone, while conceding that law had come \u201cunmoored\u201d from society\u2019s notions of privacy.<\/p>\n<p>The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, whose jurisdiction includes Virginia and Maryland, ruled 12 to 3 that police can obtain \u201ccell site\u201d location information \u2014 or CSLI \u2014 under decades-old rules that allow authorities to collect business or \u201cthird party\u201d records with a court order, such as banking transactions or numbers dialed from a landline phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Supreme Court may in the future limit, or even eliminate, the third-party doctrine. Congress may act to require a warrant for CSLI. But without a change in controlling law, we cannot conclude that the Government violated the Fourth Amendment in this case,\u201d Judge Diana Gribbon Motz wrote for the majority.<\/p>\n<p>Motz said that arguments by two men convicted in armed robberies around Baltimore &#8212; who believed search warrants should be required for their cell tower location data &#8212; would conflict with established Supreme Court doctrine and recent rulings by federal appellate courts in Florida and Cincinnati, New Orleans and Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Original Article at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/federal-appeals-court-that-includes-va-md-allows-warrantless-tracking-of-historical-cell-site-records\/2016\/05\/31\/353950d2-2755-11e6-a3c4-0724e8e24f3f_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One more thing to check off in that very short list of &#8220;Reasonable Expectations of Privacy&#8221;. Whats Next I wonder? -SF A split federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that police do not need a search warrant before obtaining cell tower location data that can trace the long-term movements of a suspect\u2019s mobile phone, while conceding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2805,5406,74,6265,1132,3712,10],"tags":[11994,1839,11995,3766],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}