Supreme Court Takes Another Step to Keep Up With the Digital Times: Criminal Procedure and Cell Phone Records in Carpenter

Personal location information held by a third party now receives heightened protection from disclosure to law enforcement

Thanks to Timothy Ivory Carpenter, Cell Site Location Information (“CSLI”) is now part of our vernacular.  More important, in light of the Supreme Court’s June 2018 ruling in Carpenter v. United States, a company’s collection and retention of a person’s historical whereabouts (location information) now receives heightened protection from search and seizure by law enforcement. 

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