Washington – The Computer & Communications Industry Association and the Software & Information Industry Association filed a joint amicus brief in the Supreme Court today in support of neither party in Chatrie v. United States. The brief supports CCIA’s longstanding position that both the Fourth Amendment and the Stored Communications Act require law enforcement to obtain judicial warrants before each request seeking internet users’ location history data.
For more than three decades, CCIA has supported ensuring Fourth Amendment protections extend to electronic communications by requiring the government to obtain a warrant based on probable cause to access the contents of citizens’ electronic communications.
The following can be attributed to CCIA President & CEO Matt Schruers:
“Internet users have a reasonable expectation that their location history is private and that law enforcement cannot access this data without a judicial warrant. The Fourth Amendment fully protects people’s rights to privacy when it comes to personal information like their location data, and we ask the Court to uphold this and clarify that warrants are required for each and every law enforcement request for this data.”
