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The Third Party Doctrine And Physical Location: The Privacy Implications Of Warrantless Acquisition Of Historical Cell Site Location Information, Matthew G. Baker Jun 2017

The Third Party Doctrine And Physical Location: The Privacy Implications Of Warrantless Acquisition Of Historical Cell Site Location Information, Matthew G. Baker

Catholic University Law Review

The warrantless acquisition of cell site location information (CSLI) by law enforcement implicates serious privacy concerns for all cell phone owners. Through a series of cases in the Circuit Courts of Appeals, the judiciary has declared that there is no expectation of privacy in the historical location of cell phones. The third-party doctrine controls where a cell phone user voluntarily conveys his location to a cell service provider.

This Comment discusses the history of the Fourth Amendment and the development of the expectation of privacy test, the third-party doctrine, and the tracking of vehicles with transponders. This Comment reviews a …


Hotline Ping: Harmonizing Contemporary Cell Phone Technology With Traditional Fourth Amendment Protections, Brianne M. Chevalier Jan 2017

Hotline Ping: Harmonizing Contemporary Cell Phone Technology With Traditional Fourth Amendment Protections, Brianne M. Chevalier

Roger Williams University Law Review

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