[News] A Federal Court Holds That Tower Dump Warrants Are Unconstitutional General Warrants

A federal judge in Mississippi has refused to authorize cell tower dumps, holding that sweeping up the phone records of everyone near a crime scene is the kind of general search the Fourth Amendment was written to forbid, though the ruling binds one district and no appeals court has agreed.

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