In October, the high court will consider another technology-related challenge. The justices agreed to hear arguments on whether police need a search warrant to access cellphone location data to track the movements of a suspect. In that case, Carpenter v. United States, police used the cellphone tower records to track Timothy Carpenter’s movements over 127 days to establish he was at a string of robberies in two states in 2010 and 2011.

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