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Supreme Court ruling adds privacy protection for the digital age

  • Written by Jonathan Weinberg, Professor of Law, Wayne State University
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The Supreme Court has handed down a landmark privacy decision in a case about cellphone location data, suggesting there should be stronger protections against government searches for the increasing amount of private information that’s stored online.

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