SCOTUS Extends Fourth Amendment Protections to Geofence Warrants
TL;DR
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that geofence warrants—police requests for location data from smartphone users in a geographic area—are Fourth Amendment searches and must be protected by privacy safeguards, rejecting arguments that short-term data or voluntary sharing negate privacy interests and signaling tighter scrutiny of digital surveillance tools.
- US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections The Guardian
- Supreme Court rules constitutional privacy protections apply to cellphone users location history AP News
- Police must obtain a warrant when seeking sweep of cellphone location data, Supreme Court rules CNN
- Supreme Court restricts use of geofence warrants NPR
- Supreme Court says police need a warrant to obtain Google location data The Washington Post
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