A man stands in the middle of Grand Central Terminal as he speaks on a cell phone, as passengers face limited train service on the New Haven Line between Stamford Station and Grand Central Terminal due to a Con Edison power problem in New York, September 25, 2013. REUTERS/Zoran Milich (UNITED STATES - Tags: TRANSPORT ENERGY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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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