Supreme Court ruling guts governmentβs use of geofence warrants
29 June 2026 at 20:04
The Fourth Amendment protects a userβs βlocation history,β the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
The same logic already applied to a cellphoneβs tracking, and the high court found βno good reason exists to reach a different result for Location Historyβ 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.


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