In major privacy win, Supreme Court rules geofence warrants are protected by privacy rights
The Supreme Court's decision to limit geofence warrants is a win for privacy advocates, who called their use unconstitutional but sought an outright ban.
The Supreme Court's decision to limit geofence warrants is a win for privacy advocates, who called their use unconstitutional but sought an outright ban.
The short version
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- Supreme Court on Monday limited the law enforcement use of “geofence” search warrants, in a major legal ruling that is likely to have broad ramifications for privacy rights and law enforcement across the United States.
What happened
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Why it matters
In practice, police will draw a shape over a map and ask a judge to allow them to demand that tech companies, such as Google, search their vast banks of users’ location data and tell them which of their users was there at the time of inquiry.
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