A New York federal judge denied a motion to suppress data stemming from law enforcement access to cellphone records in a 2015 case, finding that “it is almost as if cellphone users must relinquish some privacy interests — at least related to their location — as a prerequisite to using a device so embedded in everyday life,” Courthouse News reports. U.S. District Judge William Pauley III wrote in his ruling that “current Fourth Amendment jurisprudence affords no privacy interest in records created by a third party based on information voluntarily provided.” The case for jurisprudence may change as the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear an appeal on a case that upheld what is considered by privacy advocates to be a looser standard for search and seizure that was created by the Stored Communications Act. 
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