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Houston! We still have a 4th Amendment!
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that “an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in his cell-phone location information.”
Simply stated the ruling makes clear - the 4th Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures and effectively protects privacy rights, APPLIES to LOCATION DATA collected from from cellphones.
Authorities need to obtain a search warrant when asking tech companies for the location data of their users, including when requesting historical geofence location data.
NOTE: some service providers (Google) store users’ location data locally on their devices prompting investigators to go to the users themselves to access this data. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/in-major-privacy-win-supreme-court-rules-geofence-warrants-are-protected-by-privacy-rights/ #SCOTUS #GeoFencing #GeoFenceData #Mobility #MobilePhones #Privacy #Search&Seizure #Warrant #LocationData #4thAmendment #Constitution #PrivacyRights #DataPrivacy #SearchWarrant #LawEnforcement
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Houston! We still have a 4th Amendment!
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that “an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in his cell-phone location information.”
Simply stated the ruling makes clear - the 4th Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures and effectively protects privacy rights, APPLIES to LOCATION DATA collected from from cellphones.
Authorities need to obtain a search warrant when asking tech companies for the location data of their users, including when requesting historical geofence location data.
NOTE: some service providers (Google) store users’ location data locally on their devices prompting investigators to go to the users themselves to access this data. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/in-major-privacy-win-supreme-court-rules-geofence-warrants-are-protected-by-privacy-rights/ #SCOTUS #GeoFencing #GeoFenceData #Mobility #MobilePhones #Privacy #Search&Seizure #Warrant #LocationData #4thAmendment #Constitution #PrivacyRights #DataPrivacy #SearchWarrant #LawEnforcement