Cellphone users have a reasonable expectation of privacy as to their location and police in New Jersey have to obtain a warrant to track a criminal suspect's phone, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
"Using a cellphone to determine the location of its user can be far more revealing that acquiring toll billing, bank, or Internet subscriber records," wrote Chief Justice Stuart Rabner for the court in State v. Earls, A-53-11.
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