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Supreme Court Weighs Arguments Over How Police Request Location Data to Solve Crimes
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Supreme Court Weighs Arguments Over How Police Request Location Data to Solve Crimes

CNET·Omar Gallaga·about 1 month ago
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"Geofence warrants," sometimes known as reverse location searches, are increasingly controversial for sweeping up information on any device that happened to be in the vicinity of a crime. The way police seek location information and data from tech companies to investigate crimes is under a microscope at the highest US court, in a closely watched case with broad implications for data privacy and law enforcement. After about 2 hours of oral arguments in a case involving geofence warrants and Google, however, it was unclear whether the Supreme Court would take any action that could shift interpretations of the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits the government from conducting "unreasonable searches and seizures." The hearing Monday before the court was for Chatrie v. United States , which centers on a 2019 bank robbery in Richmond, Virginia, where $195,000 was stolen.…

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