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SCOTUS Issues Landmark Fourth Amendment and Digital Privacy Opinion in Carpenter
Loaded on Aug. 19, 2018
published in Criminal Legal News
September, 2018, page 38
As modern day technology continues to test the limits of many long-held constitutional precepts, the question before the Court in this case was whether the Government conducts a “search” under the Fourth Amendment when it accesses historical cell phone records that provide a comprehensive chronicle of the user’s past movements. ...
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