Supreme Court requires warrant for the collection of historic cell-site data

Supreme Court of the United States ^ | 06/22/2018 | SCOTUS

[jiggyboy]

Just guessing that “court order” here means the records, already in hand somewhere via search warrant, will be allowed to be “obtained” by the prosecutors to be used in the case.

[Longdriver69]

>This decision was correct. Probably the only lib winning opinion I have ever agreed with.

Agreed. As a limited-gov’t conservative, I don’t understand how other conservatives can be anything but in favor of limiting our police-state gov’t’s power to collect data on American citizens.

[jiggyboy]

I think that’s what they want me to believe, yes. I just can’t accept that that person, or all the people, I call have a more direct relationship with me, legally, than the one I already have with the phone company.

And until I make that first phone call after I sign up, who’s the second party? That’s the other thing. If that’s the phone company — and I think it is — then how do they get downgraded to “third party”? (I’m not expecting you to answer these.)

[GraceG]

[ Well we checked their cell phone records and they were home the whole evening they can;t possibly be the robber, case dismissed!

This is why Job One is total digital surveillance. It makes policing a whole lot easier. ]

You mean Lazier....

The funny thing is that the crazy people in the woods who hate technology were right all along,,,,

[Still Thinking]

Wait, so the libs (and Roberts) voted to constrain government, while the supposed conservatives and originalists (except Roberts) voted to empower it. Is EVERYONE on crack?