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US Supreme Court appears split over controversial use of 'geofence' search warrants | TechCrunch

TechCrunch·Zack Whittaker·about 1 month ago
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments in a landmark legal case that could redefine digital privacy rights for people across the United States. The case, Chatrie v. United States , centers on the government’s controversial use of so-called “geofence” search warrants. Law enforcement and federal agents use these warrants to compel tech companies, like Google, to turn over information about which of its billions of users were in a certain place and time based on their phone’s location. By casting a wide net over a tech company’s stores of users’ location data, investigators can reverse-engineer who was at the scene of a crime, effectively allowing police to identify criminal suspects akin to finding a needle in a digital haystack. But civil liberties advocates have long argued that geofence warrants are inherently overbroad and unconstitutional as they return information about people who are nearby yet have no connection to an alleged incident.…

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