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The USA supreme court listened to arguments two weeks ago pertaining to a federal trial out of the Eastern District of Michigan that caused the conviction of a number of armed robbers. The case United States v. Carpenter, nevertheless, entailed an issue that has actually come under fire lately, as a result of the Court's prior decisions involving private privacy civil liberties in other modern technology cases. In Carpenter, the U.S. Attorney presented proof of what is known as cell site location information, which, basically, is information that is kept by cell phone towers that can supply location info concerning the cellular phone customer, even when they are not directly utilizing the phone. After his conviction, the Defendant filed an appeal, suggesting that the Government acquired the documents without obtaining a search warrant, and a warrant ought to be needed to acquire that cell site location information. Fourth Amendment The US Constitution's 4th Amendment supplies ...