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The Supreme Court has ruled that law enforcement must obtain warrants before conducting broad sweeps of cellphone location data, protecting citizens from unrestricted government surveillance.
The Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement can't conduct sweeps of cellphone location data without first getting a warrant. The decision rejects the government's argument that bulk location tracking falls outside Fourth Amendment protection and requires police to show probable cause before accessing records that can reveal where millions of people have been.
This is the court pushing back against a surveillance capability that had quietly expanded. Cell location data doesn't require a person to voluntarily share it the way social media posts do — it's collected automatically by carriers. The government was treating it like a low-threshold investigative tool. The court said no, that level of tracking is too intrusive and too easy to abuse, and now warrants are mandatory even for broad sweeps.
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