Apple, Facebook and Google demanded to limit security forces' access to user data

Representatives of the largest American IT companies have asked the US Supreme Court to restrict access to information that helps to search for users using a mobile phone, reports The Verge.

Restrict access to such information is offered to law enforcement agencies, the publication clarifies. The appeal was signed by Apple, Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Dropbox and nine other companies.

"The Court must improve the application of certain provisions of the Fourth Amendment to ensure that the law interacts with Internet technologies and with people's expectations regarding the privacy of their digital data," the appeal says.

Companies insist that it is necessary to investigate whether security forces can receive information about the location of the user through his mobile phone without a court order.

It should be noted that the issue of searching for people by the location of a mobile phone was also raised in Russia. In particular, President Vladimir Putin promised to deal with the ban on tracking the location of a missing person on a mobile phone.

The head of the voluntary search and rescue team "Lisa Alert" Grigory Sergeev believes that the appeal of relatives to law enforcement agencies with a statement about the loss is enough to start a search on a mobile phone.

Maxim Proshkin