Users Have No Expectation of Privacy in Cell-Site Info

Mobile phone customers don’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the cell tower location records kept by wireless carriers that reveal the general areas where the phones were used, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled April 21 (Taylor v. State, 2016 BL 127001, Nev., 65388, 4/21/16).

The decision allows law enforcement officers to access cell site location information (CSLI) from a suspect’s service provider with a subpoena instead of a search warrant.

Business Records.

The police in this case relied on a process set out in the Stored Communications Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2703(d), which allows investigators ...