Supreme Court cracks down on government snooping through cellphone location records
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled Friday that the government cannot monitor people’s past movements for weeks or months by tracking the location of their mobile phones without a warrant.
In a ruling that could have broad implications for privacy rights in the digital age, justices on both sides of the ideological spectrum said rapid advances in technology make decades-old rules on data privacy inadequate.
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