Intellectual Property Law

Cell Phone Tracking

By Tim Armstrong, Derek Bambauer, and William McGeveran.

My friend Catherine Crump, staff attorney at the ACLU, has an excellent op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer about whether police must obtain a warrant before engaging in geo-location of cell phones. The case at issue, in front of the Third Circuit, offers an important opportunity to clarify privacy rights at a time when our physical location is increasingly ascertainable. Right now, the case law mostly looks to whether tracking occurs outside or inside the home – a distinction that seems untenable in light of the Supreme Court’s statement that privacy protects people, not places. I’m looking forward to the court’s decision, though admittedly with some trepidation…

Full post as published by Info/Law on February 22, 2010 (boomark / email).