Supreme Court Extends Privacy Protections to Cellphone Location History
TL;DR
The Supreme Court has ruled that privacy protections apply to individuals’ cellphone location history, strengthening digital privacy by limiting how such data can be accessed or used by authorities and third parties.
- 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
- US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections The Guardian
- Court rules that law enforcement’s use of “geofence warrant” was a “search” SCOTUSblog
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