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UPDATE 1-U.S. court says no warrant needed for cellphone location data

June 01, 2016

WASHINGTON, May 31- Police do not need a warrant to obtain a person's cellphone location data held by wireless carriers, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday, dealing a setback to privacy advocates. The full 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, voted 12-3 that the government can get the information under a decades-old legal theory that it had...

Source: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/31/reuters-america-update-1-us-court-says-no-warrant-needed-for-cellphone-location-data.html
 
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