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In a unanimous decision issued today, the Supreme Court ruled that police cannot search the cell phones of arrested individuals without a warrant. In reaching its decision, the Court recognized that there is an immense amount of personal information on smart phones and held that access to that information would constitute a significant invasion of individual privacy. With the relatively recent invention of cell phones and the sudden pervasiveness of smart phones in the United States,… More

The Supreme Court today issued an opinion holding that police cannot track a suspect using GPS without first getting a warrant.

Justice Scalia wrote the opinion, for a unanimous court, and concluded:  “We hold that the Government’s installation of a GPS device on a target’s vehicle, and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle’s movements, constitutes a ‘search.’  It is important to be clear about what occurred in this case: The Government physically occupied private property for the purpose of obtaining information.”… More