Government To High Court: No Expectation Of Privacy In Cell Site Records

Mealey's (September 27, 2017, 12:47 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a Sept. 25 brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. government argues that its collection of historical cell site location information (CSLI) records via an order issued under the Stored Communications Act (SCA) during a criminal investigation did not violate a petitioner’s rights under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution because he had no reasonable expectation of privacy in the records (Timothy Ivory Carpenter v. United States of America, No. 16-402, U.S. Sup.)....