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Appeals Court To Consider Warrantless Cellphone Tracking
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A federal appeals court in Atlanta is considering whether investigators must obtain a search warrant to obtain cellphone tower tracking data.
A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in June ruled investigators must get a search warrant to get the data, which is widely used to show suspects were in the vicinity of a crime.
The federal government asked to have the decision reconsidered by the full court and oral arguments were held Tuesday.
The issue arises from a Miami case in which federal prosecutors used a court order to get cellphone tower data over a 67-day period for Quartavious Davis, a suspect in a string of robberies.
Attorneys for Davis argue his constitutional rights were violated, when law enforcement obtained that data without a warrant.
Similar cases are winding their way through the legal system, and the Supreme Court could make a final decision on the issue.
Tags: cellphone tower case, warrantless cellphone tracking, Quartavious Davis, federal court
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