Andrea Noble reports:
The D.C. Court of Appeals found that District police violated a man’s constitutional rights by using cellphone surveillance technology to track his location without a warrant, reversing his robbery and sexual-assault convictions.
The 2-1 decision puts Washington in line with a growing number of jurisdictions where courts have taken a dim view of the cell-site tracking technology, which police departments have turned to as a forceful investigative tool.
Read more on The Washington Times.
h/t, Joe Cadillic
See also Ars Technica coverage and the opinion, which they uploaded.