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Supreme Court Takes on Geofence Warrants

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Today, 9:42 AM by Rich Brome @rbrome.bsky.social

The US Supreme Court is hearing arguments today on whether "geofence warrants" violate the Fourth Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches. Geofence warrants request info on all persons whose phones can be placed within a certain area at a certain time, without naming a specific person of interest. In this case, the warrant was served to Google, and used to find someone who robbed a bank in Virginia. The Supreme Court previously weighed in on phone location data in 2018 when it ruled that getting location data for a specific person required a warrant.

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