In October, the Supreme Court will decide whether the warrantless search of historical cellphone records revealing the location and movements of a cell phone user over the course of 127 days is permitted by the Fourth Amendment. After Riley v. California in 2014, the Fourth Amendment requires a warrant to search the contents of a cell phone. Carpenter v. United States will take this analysis a step further to decide whether the FBI needed a warrant based on probable cause to obtain transactional records, such as dates, times and locations where calls were made, from Carpenter’s provider under the “third-party doctrine.” … Read More Where Have You Been for the Past 127 Days? SCOTUS to Decide on Warrantless Search of Cell Phone Locations in Carpenter v. United States