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‘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

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @[email protected] · 2026-06-29 · 21:21 UTC

In major #privacy win, #SupremeCourt rules #geofence #warrants are protected by privacy rights
In the 6-3 ruling, #SCOTUS said that “an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in his cell-phone #location information.” According to the court, that means people have privacy rights when it comes to the location history collected by their phones, as well as the services and apps running on them. #4thAmendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/in-major-privacy-win-supreme-court-rules-geofence-warrants-are-protected-by-privacy-rights/

#privacy #supremecourt #geofence #warrants #scotus #location

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

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @[email protected] · 2026-04-28 · 21:21 UTC

#US #SupremeCourt appears split over controversial use of '#geofence' search #warrants
The case, Chatrie v. United States, centers on the government’s controversial use of so-called “geofence” #searchwarrants. #Lawenforcement and federal agents use these warrants to compel tech companies, like Google, to turn over information about which of its billions of users were in a certain place and time based on their #phone’s location.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/28/scotus-chatrie-geofence-search-warrant-ruling-arguments/ #privacy #surveillance

#us #supremecourt #geofence #warrants #searchwarrants #lawenforcement

PrivacyDigest @[email protected] · 2026-03-04 · 03:48 UTC

EFF to #SupremeCourt : Shut Down #Unconstitutional #Geofence Searches

Digital #Dragnets Violate #FourthAmendment , Brief Argues

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union ( #ACLU ), the ACLU of #Virginia, and the Center on #Privacy & Technology at #GeorgetownLaw filed a brief Monday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that invasive geofence #warrants are unconstitutional.
#scotus #privacy

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-supreme-court-shut-down-unconstitutional-geofence-searches

#scotus #warrants #georgetownlaw #privacy #virginia #aclu

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @[email protected] · 2026-01-29 · 13:39 UTC

#SupremeCourt to consider whether #geofence #warrants are #constitutional
Case centers Okello Chatrie, Virginia man who pleaded guilty to a 2019 robbery for stealing $195,000 at gunpoint.
#Police found security camera footage showing man on phone near credit union that was robbed and asked #Google to produce #locationdata near robbery site so they could determine who committed crime. They did so, providing police with subscriber data for 3 people, one of whom was Chatrie.
https://therecord.media/supreme-court-geofence-constitutionality

#supremecourt #geofence #warrants #constitutional #police #google

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @[email protected] · 2025-06-23 · 10:04 UTC

#AppealsCourt Sidesteps The Big Questions on #Geofence #Warrants
The practical outcome of this sentence is clear: the evidence collected from a #geofencewarrant issued to Google can be used against the defendant in this case. But that is largely where the clarity ends.
As a result, the new opinion in Chatrie is a missed opportunity for the Fourth Circuit to join both other appellate courts to have considered the issue in finding geofence warrants unconstitutional
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/appeals-court-sidesteps-big-questions-geofence-warrants
#privacy

#appealscourt #geofence #warrants #geofencewarrant #privacy