A criminal suspect had no expectation of privacy in his cellphone number and so could not suppress evidence obtained from an intercepted phone call, a New Jersey appeals court held on June 8.
In a case of first impression, State of New Jersey v. DeFranco , the Appellate Division ruled a cellphone number is “simply a number,” in contrast to other “seemingly innocuous” information that has been held to be private because it “constituted the keys to the details” of people’s lives.
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