Supreme Court rules authorities need warrant to gather phone location data
(Android Police)

Gathering location data just became trickier for authorities. In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that accessing a suspect`s cell phone location history should require a warrant. The decision came at the end of Carpenter v. United States, the first case about location data the Supreme Court has ruled on. The case in question started with a robbery in 2011, after which Detroit police acquired 127 days` worth of location data from Timothy Carpenter`s cell phone provider. Read MoreSupreme Court rules authorities need warrant to gather phone location data was written by the awesome team at Android Police.