Intellectual Property Law

New Development in Location Privacy

By Harry Boadwee

This Washington Post article discusses a federal district court ruling last month, which apparently is the first to hold that the government must obtain a warrant based on probable cause of criminal activity before seeking location-based cell phone records.

According to an update to the article, two other district court rulings previously found that the government may obtain the data on a standard lower than probable cause.

The article goes on to say that the ruling could begin to establish the standard for such requests.

Full post as published by AS-IS Blog on October 12, 2008 (boomark / email).