Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Friday, June 22nd 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

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In another 5-4 decision today today the High Court ruled that law enforcement officials need a warrant

to get mobile phone tower records, the method by which they can track a person's location, where they've been over an extended period of time.

The court said that obtaining such data without a warrant, as police have routinely done

up to this point, amounts to an unreasonable search and seizure under the US Constitution's

Fourth Amendment. The ruling was written by Chief Justice John Roberts, who joined

the liberal justices in the majority. Quoting Roberts in the decision,

we decline to grant the state unrestricted access to a wireless carrier's

database of physical location information, end quote.

He added, however, that police can still avoid obtaining warrants

for other types of business records.

NBC's Pete Williams described the decision as a victory for privacy advocates

writing quote, in recent years the justices have shown a willingness

to extend digital age privacy protections.

The Supreme Court has ruled that police need warrants

to search through the contents of smartphones

or to attach a GPS

tracking device to a car." To be clear, this is an entirely different issue

than all those recent stories we've discussed about sell companies selling your location

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