Police suffered a digital age defeat today (June 22, 2018), as the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 that a warrant will be needed to search cellphones, according to the Fox News website.
Chief Justice John Roberts cast the deciding vote.
At issue is whether the Constitution's Fourth Amendment requires a search warrant for the government to access a person's cellphone history.
The stakes of this case were enormous, since this judicial precedent could be applied more broadly, including government access to Internet, bank, credit card, and telephone records.
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