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The Supreme Court ruled that geofence warrants—which target everyone in a location at a specific time—violate Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches.
The Supreme Court ruled that geofence warrants—which sweep up location data for everyone in a geographic area at a specific time—violate Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches. The ruling applies brakes to a law enforcement surveillance tool that has exploded in use over the past decade, especially by federal agencies.
Geofence warrants work like this: police ask Google or Apple for data on every phone that pinged a location at a certain moment, then they sift through hundreds or thousands of innocent people's movements to find suspects. The Court found this backwards—casting a huge net and sorting through the innocent to find the guilty violates the principle that warrants must be narrow and targeted. Police can still get location data, but they'll need to narrow their request much more carefully. This is a straightforward privacy win that actually limits surveillance expansion.
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