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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

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

Techdirt [Unofficial] @[email protected] · 2026-03-17 · 19:23 UTC

The SAFE Act Is An Imperfect Vehicle For Real Section 702 Reform

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/17/the-safe-act-is-an-imperfect-vehicle-for-real-section-702-reform/

#4thamendment #backdoorsearches #dickdurbin #fbi #incidentalcollection #masssurveiilance

Nonilex @[email protected] · 2024-08-14 · 14:56 UTC

2nd, & much more dramatically, the #FifthCircuit rules that bc the database of #geofence records is so large, & bc the whole database must be scanned through to find matches, the #FourthAmendment does not allow courts to issue #warrants to collect those records. In #legal terms, it is impossible to have a warrant particular enough to authorize the #surveillance. IOW, the govt can't gather these kinds of online records at all, even w/a #warrant based on #ProbableCause.

#law #InfoSec #privacy

#fifthcircuit #geofence #fourthamendment #warrants #legal #surveillance

Nonilex @[email protected] · 2024-08-14 · 14:49 UTC

Once in a while there is a court ruling on the #FourthAmendment that just makes my jaw drop. [The #ExtremistCourt] The #FifthCircuit had such a ruling last Friday, United States v. Jamarr Smith.…

The new case is about the Fourth Amendment limits of #geofence #warrants, which are warrants to access #location #information for users who have opted into having Internet providers retain location history.

- Orin Kerr
@lawfare
#law #InfoSec #privacy
https://mastodon.social/@lawfare/112960836499873638

#fourthamendment #extremistcourt #fifthcircuit #geofence #warrants #location

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @[email protected] · 2024-08-13 · 23:04 UTC

In a major decision federal #FifthCircuit #CourtofAppeals held that #geofence #warrants are “categorically prohibited by the #FourthAmendment.”
Court determined under Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Carpenter v. United States, individuals have reasonable expectation of #privacy in #location data implicated by #geofencewarrants.
Second, court found that even though investigators seek warrants for geofence location data, these searches are inherently #unconstitutional.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/federal-appeals-court-finds-geofence-warrants-are-categorically-unconstitutional

#fifthcircuit #courtofappeals #geofence #warrants #fourthamendment #privacy