ACLU: Tracking Your Cellphone Location Should Require a Warrant

Should the government get a warrant before it obtains seven months' worth of your cellphone location data, which details practically everywhere you've been in that time?

The U.S. government argues it doesn't need to, and a district court judge agreed. But the American Civil Liberties Union disagrees, arguing that such sensitive information should be protected by the Fourth Amendment and thus require a warrant

SEE ALSO: DOJ Still Arguing It Doesn't Need Warrant To Track You With GPS

The ACLU filed a brief (.PDF) on Monday in a criminal case where the government obtained almost 30,000 cell site location data points for each of two defendants, Aaron Graham and Eric Jordan, who robbed a Burger King and a McDonald's on February 5, 2001, in Baltimore, MD Read more...

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