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Radio Shack robbery to have huge consequences for location privacy

29th November 2017 By Lisa Vaas

 

 

The time has come, finally, after years of confusion, to iron out what kind of privacy – if any – Americans can expect with regards to their phones’ location data.

 

The Supreme Court today will take up a slew of questions that arise from the modern era of ubiquitous cellphone usage. The case in question, Carpenter v. United States, is one of many that have arisen when police have used cellphone-derived location data to pinpoint suspects’ whereabouts and whenabouts.

 

The story of this case begins in a humble enough setting: a Radio Shack store in Detroit that was the site of an armed robbery a couple of weeks before Christmas 2010. It was one of a string of robberies in the Midwest in 2010 and 2011.

 

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