Cell site location information is protected by the Fourth Amendment, according to a recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruling, said Katharine Goodloe, an associate at Covington & Burling, in a recent post on the Inside Privacy blog. This means the cell location information obtained from towers can only be obtained with a warrant, she said.
In the case, United States v. Davis, the appellant had been convicted on several counts of robbery under the Hobbs Act and other offenses. At pretrial, Quartavious Davis applied to suppress electronic location evidence obtained by the government without a warrant, asserting his Fourth Amendment rights. The pretrial motion, and its renewal at trial, were denied.
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