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CRJ 325 WEEK 6 DQ

Week 6 Discussion

"Cell Phones and The Fourth Amendment" Please respond to the following

· Read the article titled, “SCOTUS Issues Landmark Decision on Cell Phone Location Information with Major Implications for Fourth Amendment Privacy” located at https://businesslawtoday.org/2018/07/scotus-issues-landmark-decision-cell-phone-location-information-major-implications-fourth-amendment-privacy/. Explain in your own words the reasoning of the Supreme Court in this case. Do you agree or disagree? Justify your rationale. 

· Reply to the post of at least one of your classmates (BELOW) with a meaningful reply that compares or contrasts the classmate's post to yours or adds further insight into the topic.  A meaningful Reply will typically contain at least 100 words.

Tracy Cheek-Wilkins

RE: Week 6 Discussion

The Supreme Court handed down a landmark opinion in Carpenter v. United States, ruling that the Fourth Amendment protects cell phone location information. In an opinion of Chief Justice Roberts, the Court also recognized that location information, collected by cell providers like Sprint, AT&T, and Verizon, creates a “detailed chronicle of a person’s physical presence compiled every day, every moment over years.” As a result, police must now get a warrant before obtaining this data. Cell phones are essential to modern life, but the way that cell phones operate by constantly connecting to cell towers to exchange data this also makes it possible for cell providers to collect information on everywhere that each phone is located phone’s owner has been for years in the past. As the Court noted, not only does access to this kind of information allow the government to achieve near perfect surveillance, as if it had attached an ankle monitor to the phone’s user, however, because phone companies collect it for every device, the police need not even know in advance whether they want to follow a particular individual, or when.  In some cases I feel that yes they need to track your cellphone if they are looking to track a fugitive and trying to locate misisng children that is a must

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