Court Rules That Warrant is Not Required to Obtain Cellphone Location Data
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an appeal that would require law enforcement to obtain a warrant to access the location data records of individuals from phone companies. The court found that court orders authorized by the Stored Communications Act that make cell phone providers share the historical location data of customers are not unconstitutional as the The ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation had argued.
According to the court, cell phone location records are not protected under the Fourth Amendment because they are not the private records of individuals but rather the business records of cell phone companies. The
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