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428. Fatuity Watch

By Joel Jacobsen

CNET has been covering a Third Circuit case that seems to involve a novel legal issue when all it really involves is a no-longer-new technology: The FBI and other police agencies don't need to obtain a search warrant to learn the locations of Americans' cell phones, the U.S. Department of Justice told a federal appeals court in Philadelphia on Friday.A Justice Department attorney told the Third Circuit Court of Appeals that there is no constitutional problem with obtaining records from cellular providers that can reveal the approximate locations of handheld and mobile devices. There "is no constitutional bar" to acquiring "routine business records held by a communications service provider," said Mark Eckenwiler, a senior attorney in the criminal division of the Justice Department...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on February 15, 2010 (boomark / email).