The Mosaic Theory: Implications for Cell Site Location Tracking

dc.contributor.advisorSelva, Lanceen_US
dc.contributor.authorRumsey, Robert Benjaminen_US
dc.contributor.committeememberShulman, Williamen_US
dc.contributor.committeememberBurris-Kitchen, Deborahen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCriminal Justice Administrationen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-02T18:46:18Z
dc.date.available2014-06-02T18:46:18Z
dc.date.issued2013-04-09en_US
dc.description.abstractABSTRACTen_US
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of the work is to confront and discuss the unique legal and privacy implications that cell site location data tracking through service providers poses for current Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. After a brief explanation of how cell phone tracking works, discussion is directed to the early Framers' intent in configuring the Fourth Amendment and then examines the notion of privacy under the Fourth Amendment both prior to and following the seminal Supreme Court decision of Katz v. United States (1967), including a review of the Supreme Court's historical treatment of tracking devices post-Katz. The paper reviews the third-party assumption of risk doctrine, which currently allows the government to collect information where such information has been revealed to a third-party for a limited business purpose. Finally, consideration is directed to the Maynard Court's utilization of the "mosaic" theory in a Fourth Amendment search framework and how its adoption of the mosaic created a novel approach for countering the government's reliance on the third-party assumption of risk doctrine. It is maintained that when the time comes for the Supreme Court to review the issue of cell site location tracking that the mosaic theory will inform and fashion the Court's decision to broaden privacy protections under the Fourth Amendment.en_US
dc.description.degreeM.S.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://jewlscholar.mtsu.edu/handle/mtsu/3526
dc.publisherMiddle Tennessee State Universityen_US
dc.subject4th Amendmenten_US
dc.subjectLocation Trackingen_US
dc.subjectMosaic Theoryen_US
dc.subjectRight To Privacyen_US
dc.subject.umiLawen_US
dc.thesis.degreegrantorMiddle Tennessee State Universityen_US
dc.thesis.degreelevelMastersen_US
dc.titleThe Mosaic Theory: Implications for Cell Site Location Trackingen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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