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Daily Dashboard | Court Reverses Landmark Cell-Phone Privacy Decision Related reading: A view from Brussels: EDPS sends signal on data transfers 

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A U.S. Circuit court has reversed a landmark privacy decision, Wired reports. Last year, the court ruled against the government in a case involving Quartavious Davis, whose cell phone was tracked by police as he went on a crime spree. But in a decision published Tuesday, a panel of 11th Circuit Court judges overturned the ruling in U.S. v. Davis. The new ruling says that because Davis’s phone location data wasn’t his property but that of the phone carrier, he had no expectation of privacy and the police who were tracking him didn’t need a warrant. “It’s a huge setback as compared to the decision it vacated,” said one law professor.
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