WASHINGTON—A pillar of modern policing will come under Supreme Court scrutiny Wednesday as the government defends its power to seize, without a search warrant, data that telecom and internet companies collect about an individual. The case involves an armed robber the Federal Bureau of Investigation nabbed after studying his movements over a 127-day span, using cellphone location records agents obtained from Sprint and MetroPCS without establishing probable cause to believe they contained criminal evidence.

Source: Wall Street Journal November 29, 2017 00:00 UTC