Real Time Cell Phone Tracking Legislation

What’s happening? North Carolina Legislature approved an exception to warrant process to allow law enforcement to track cell phone data in real time if there is risk of death or serious body harm.

Why is this important? It is these types of constitutional issues where Libertarian leaning Republicans and ACLU agree. Because of that, oversight was added to the bill which the republican author purportedly refused initially.

How will this be important? Legislating around constitutional warrant requirements gets tricky when humans are involved. They want to push it further and take more, and then Legislatures pull back their laws. Before the retraction, other states will jump on the bandwagon.

News & Observer via Governing | N.C. Lawmakers Approve Police Tracking of Cell Phone Data