Supreme Court extends Fourth Amendment protection to location data held by tech firms
TL;DR
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that people have a privacy interest in their mobile-device location data, even when shared with tech companies, so police generally need a warrant to obtain it. The decision in Chatrie v. United States extends Fourth Amendment protections to data held by Google/Apple and narrows geofence warrants, with dissent from Alito, Barrett and Thomas.
- Justices say Constitution protects people’s location history Politico
- US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections The Guardian
- Supreme Court rules constitutional privacy protections apply to cellphone user's location history WTAE
- Court rules that law enforcement’s use of “geofence warrant” was a “search” SCOTUSblog
- Supreme Court restricts use of geofence warrants NPR
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