Wins / Federal, June 2026
Supreme Court holds that pulling your phone's location history is a search
In Chatrie v. United States the Supreme Court held that police conduct a Fourth Amendment search when they obtain a person's cell-phone location history through a geofence warrant, because a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy in that data. Geofence warrants must now meet the ordinary requirements of probable cause and particularity.
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- Federal
- When
- June 2026
- What kind
- Court ruling, featured by the editor
- Issue
- Surveillance
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