The Supreme Court of the United States will settle a major location privacy case in its upcoming term, Reuters reports. Justices have agreed to hear a criminal appeal involving a series of armed robberies, in which police used historical cellphone location data to convict a suspect. The defendant claimed the use of his location records without a warrant was a Fourth Amendment violation. Though cellphone location records have become increasingly important for law enforcement investigations, SCOTUS has sided with individual privacy rights in recent years, including in cases involving GPS vehicle tracking and searching suspects' cellphones during arrests. "Because cellphone location records can reveal countless private details of our lives," the American Civil Liberty Union's Nathan Freed Wessler said, "police should only be able to access them by getting a warrant based on probable cause." 
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