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javajosh on April 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Police Are Using Phone Tracking As A Routine Tool

>In what sense is this a clear violation of the 4th Amendment?

"In Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967), the Supreme Court ruled that a party is considered to have been searched, for Fourth Amendment purposes, if that party had a "reasonable expectation of privacy".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United...

tptacek on April 2, 2012 [–]

Also from Katz:

What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection. http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=9210492700696416....

javajosh on April 2, 2012 | [–]

The GPS coordinates of my phone are not known to the general public.

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