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The Hill: A federal judge in #Mississippi ruled Wednesday that "tower dump" warrants are unconstitutional, declining to reverse a lower court decision refusing the government's request to obtain the search warrants in a series of violent crime investigations. A "tower dump" involves #cellphone companies providing law enforcement with access to the time and location data of all mobile devices connected to specific cell towers during a designated time window.
#towerdump #privacy #4thamendment

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/06/2147247/tower-dump-warrants-ruled-unconstitutional?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

#4thamendment #privacy #towerdump #cellphone #mississippi #unconstitutional

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @[email protected] · 2026-08-07 · 12:39 UTC

‘Tower dump’ warrants ruled #unconstitutional
A "tower dump" involves #cellphone companies providing #lawenforcement with access to the time and location data of all mobile devices connected to a cell tower
"That is an unreasonable search under the #FourthAmendment," judge concluded
The order repeatedly referenced the Supreme Court's recent decision in Chatrie v United States, in which the majority held that #geofence #warrants require constitutional #privacy protections
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/6013559-mississippi-judge-declares-towers-dumps-unconstitutional/

#unconstitutional #cellphone #lawenforcement #fourthamendment #geofence #warrants

PrivacyDigest @[email protected] · 2026-06-29 · 21:10 UTC

#SupremeCourt ruling guts government’s use of #geofence #warrants

The #FourthAmendment protects a user’s “location history,” the Supreme Court ruled Monday.

The same logic already applied to a cellphone’s #tracking , and the high court found “no good reason exists to reach a different result for Location History” collected by third parties like #Google.

Split 6-3, the majority agreed that the government needs a #warrant and must show reasonable cause to turn a phone's location-tracking services into a government #surveillance tool.
#privacy

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/supreme-court-ruling-guts-governments-use-of-geofence-warrants/

#privacy #surveillance #warrant #google #tracking #fourthamendment

PrivacyDigest @[email protected] · 2026-03-07 · 04:56 UTC

The Government Uses Targeted #Advertising to #Track Your Location. Here's What We Need to Do.

We've all had the unsettling experience of seeing an ad online that reveals just how much #advertisers know about our lives. You're right to be disturbed. Those very same online ad systems have been used by the government to warrantlessly track peoples' locations, new reporting has confirmed.
#warrants #privacy #surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/targeted-advertising-gives-your-location-government-just-ask-cbp

#surveillance #privacy #warrants #advertisers #track #advertising

PrivacyDigest @[email protected] · 2025-05-08 · 00:35 UTC

Appeals Court Sidesteps The Big Questions on #Geofence #Warrants

Another federal appeals court has ruled on controversial geofence warrants—sort of. Last week, the US Court of Appeals for the #FourthCircuit sitting en banc issued a single sentence opinion affirming the lower court opinion in USA v. #Chatrie. The practical outcome of this sentence is clear: the #evidence collected from a geofence warrant issued to #Google can be used against the defendant in this case

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/appeals-court-sidesteps-big-questions-geofence-warrants

#google #evidence #chatrie #fourthcircuit #warrants #geofence

Crypto News @[email protected] · 2024-07-31 · 04:37 UTC

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#argo #shares #mining #warrants #debtrepayment #workingcapital