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WASHINGTON — Police can pull sensitive personal data from many modern vehicles without a warrant due to gaps in federal law, according to new research.

Police can pull sensitive personal data from many modern vehicles without a warrant due to gaps in US federal law, according to new research.

The Supreme Court has determined that police need a warrant to search that information when it's on a mobile phone, but that protection doesn't extend to the information when stored on a car's systems, experts say.

New research has found that federal law does not currently extend the security protections users receive over their phone’s personal data to modern vehicles, which often pull information from the driver’s phone.