Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Sixth Circuit: No Expectation of Privacy in Cell Phone GPS Data


Palazzolo, Joe. "Sixth Circuit: No Expectation of Privacy in Cell Phone GPS Data." The Wall Street Journal, August 14, 2012.

From the article: "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that the Drug Enforcement Administration committed no Fourth Amendment violation in using a drug runner’s cellphone data to track his whereabouts. The DEA obtained a court order to track Melvin Skinner’s phone, after finding his number in the course of an investigation of a large-scale drug trafficking operation." Read more