Police No Longer Allowed to Use Cellphone Data Without Warrant

As of today, police are no longer able to use cell phone satellites to locate people suspected of a crime without a warrant. Reuters reports that "The court said obtaining such data without a warrant from wireless carriers, as police routinely do, amounted to an unreasonable search and seizure under the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment". The court ruled in favor of a man named Timothy Carpenter, who tracked the man through multiple robberies and linked him to the crimes using cellphone data taken without the use of a warrant. The U.S Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 on the issue, with chief justice Roberts and the other four liberal justices voting in favor. [ 1images, 1 link, 1 quotations, 112 words].