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Supreme Court to hear case on phone location warrants used to catch bank robber

The Independent·Mark Sherman·about 1 month ago
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The Supreme Court is poised to rule on a critical digital privacy issue : whether geofence warrants, a powerful police tool, violate the Fourth Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches. This legal challenge stems from cases like Okello Chatrie's, who stole $195,000 from a bank in suburban Richmond , Virginia. He eluded police until a geofence warrant compelled Google to provide location histories of devices within a virtual perimeter near the crime scene, identifying his phone among a handful of others. The high court's decision will be the latest attempt to apply a 1791 constitutional provision to technologies unimaginable to its founders. This legal challenge stems from cases like Okello Chatrie's, who stole $195,000 from a bank in Virginia (AP Photo/Steve Helber) Chatrie's appeal is one of two cases being argued Monday.…

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