Ninth Circuit Upholds Privacy of Text Messages

In a landmark ruling last year, the Sixth Circuit held that the Fourth Amendment protects email stored with a third party. Today's ruling applies the Fourth Amendment to text messaging.

The Ninth Circuit also held that defendant Arch Wireless provided an “electronic communication service” to the City, and therefore violated the Stored Communications Act by "knowingly turn[ing] over the text-messaging transcripts to the City" without the consent of the addressee or intended recipient.

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