{"id":134387,"date":"2017-11-27T04:37:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T09:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=134387"},"modified":"2017-11-27T04:37:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T09:37:49","slug":"justices-ponder-need-for-warrant-for-cellphone-tower-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/27\/justices-ponder-need-for-warrant-for-cellphone-tower-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Justices ponder need for warrant for cellphone tower data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Supreme Court is taking up a case about privacy in the digital age that tests whether police need a warrant to examine cellphone tower records. Such records can reveal a lot about where someone has been.<\/p>\n<p>The justices are hearing arguments Wednesday in an appeal by federal prison inmate Timothy Carpenter. He is serving a 116-year sentence after a jury convicted him of armed robberies in the Detroit area and northwestern Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators helped build their case by matching Carpenter&#8217;s use of his smartphone to cell towers near stores that had been robbed.<\/p>\n<p>Police look at this information in thousands of investigations a year. Activists, media organizations and technology experts are among those arguing that it&#8217;s too easy for authorities to learn revealing details of Americans&#8217; lives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Supreme Court is taking up a case about privacy in the digital age that tests whether police &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":125236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16],"tags":[35645,1144,35646],"class_list":["post-134387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news","tag-cellphone-tower-data","tag-supreme-court","tag-warrant","mauthors-mark-sherman","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}