A Needle In A Legal Haystack Could Sink A Major Supreme Court Privacy Case; NPR, March 28, 2018

Nina Totenberg, NPR; A Needle In A Legal Haystack Could Sink A Major Supreme Court Privacy Case

"The question in the case is whether a U.S. technology company can refuse to honor a court-ordered U.S. search warrant seeking information that is stored at a facility outside the United States...

...[A]s the case came to the justices, they were going to have to apply current advanced technology to the Stored Communications Act, a law enacted in 1986, several years before email even became available for wide public use.

Amazingly, just three weeks after the Supreme Court argument, lo and behold, a Congress famous for gridlock passed legislation to modernize the law...

Titled the Cloud Act (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data), the statute was attached to the 2,232 page, $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill."

Supreme Court to decide if a warrant is needed to track a suspect through cellphone records; Washington Post, June 5, 2017

Robert Barnes, Washington Post; Supreme Court to decide if a warrant is needed to track a suspect through cellphone records

"The Supreme Court next term will decide whether law enforcement authorities need a warrant to track a suspect through his cellphone records, justices announced Monday.

The case seeks to resolve a digital-age question that has divided lower courts relying on past Supreme Court precedents about privacy."