Supreme Court Extends Fourth Amendment Protections to Third-Party Location Data
TL;DR
The Supreme Court ruled that cellphone location data held by third parties is protected as a Fourth Amendment search, limiting geofence warrants that sweep everyone in an area; in Chatrie v. United States the Court sent the case back to the Fourth Circuit to evaluate whether the multistep process meets the warrant's 'probable cause' and 'particularity' requirements, reinforcing privacy protections in the digital age.
Topics:nationpolitics#fourth-amendment#geofence-warrants#location-data#politics#privacy#supreme-court
- Supreme Court rules your cellphone location data is protected by the Fourth Amendment The Conversation
- Supreme Court restricts use of geofence warrants NPR
- Court rules that law enforcement’s use of “geofence warrant” was a “search” SCOTUSblog
- Supreme Court rules constitutional privacy protections apply to cellphone users' location history AP News
- Elena Kagan Just Bolstered the Fourth Amendment in a Badly Needed Way Slate Magazine
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