Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 8/18/2015

Commonwealth v. Augustine

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472 Mass. 448
35 N.E.3d 688

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\[T]he government-compelled production of the defendant's [historical] CSLI records [covering two weeks] by Sprint constituted a search in the constitutional sense to which the warrant requirement of art. 14 applied\
search occurs when government intrudes on actual and reasonable expectation of privacy
search occurs when government intrudes on actual and reasonable expectation of privacy
\a number of courts -- including this court -- have determined that it is only when [vehicle location] tracking takes place over extended periods * of time that the cumulative nature of the information collected implicates a privacy interest\
\GPS data and historical CSLI are linked at a fundamental level\ because they both implicate \the same constitutionally protected interest -- a person's reasonable expectation of privacy -- in the same manner -- by tracking the person's movements\
warrant required under art. 14 of Massachusetts Declaration of Rights

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Judges: Gants, Spina, Cordy, Botsford, Duffly, Lenk, Hines

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