Can police track my online activity?
Hripsime Bagdasaryan's Answer
Criminal Lawglendale, USA8 years experience
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The question is can police track your online activity, so that question is a little bit broad
I'm assuming it means like obtaining
Data or non-public data from your phone if we're talking about tracking online
Activity like a wiretap or something like that that we see on TV shows things like that require
Judicial approval so like courts need to be able to issue
You know warrants for things like that approvals for things like that in order for a wiretap for example to be able to go through
Basic like subscriber info so like things that are tied to your IP address like your billing info stuff like that
Often requires subpoenas or court orders as well
Your stored emails your texts your DMS your cloud
Your search history so like your Google search history
Your location history all of that stuff usually require a warrant based off of a probable cause
Suspicion from the law enforcement agency now. I'm talking about, California, so California has
Strong digital protections based on the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act so it's the Cal ECPA and
Under that state law enforcement generally needs a warrant before accessing any electronic
communication content or device information
And then there are exceptions to that as there are under anything in in the law, but generally speaking
Police can't just track you online without some significant reason
That they can provide to a court then the court will give them approval to do so
