WASHINGTON: Police don’t need a warrant to obtain mobile phone location data for a criminal investigation, a US appeals court ruled in a case closely watched for digital-era privacy implications.
The case decided by the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Virginia is among several pending in the courts on “location privacy,” or whether using the digital data violates constitutional guarantees against unreasonable searches.
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