The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday...

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday vacated its previous ruling that police need a warrant to acquire cellphone location data from service providers (CD June 13 p9). The decision (http://1.usa.gov/1qhBjxx) said a majority of the 11th Circuit judges voted to rehear the case en banc (No. 12-12928). The previous ruling had been seen as a remarkable victory for privacy advocates fighting for legal protection of electronic data (WID July 14 p1).