In a feature for Slate, Mark Joseph Stern contends that this week’s Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that authorities do not need warrants to extract historical location data from cell phones “is doomed at the Supreme Court” level. “The Fifth Circuit’s cellphone ruling is almost certain to be reversed in the near future, barring a dramatic change of heart from one of the Supreme Court’s privacy lovers,” he writes. Meanwhile, TIME takes a look at five recent privacy cases in a report examining how the Supreme Court defines the right to privacy.
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