Supreme Court rules constitutional privacy protections apply to geofence warrants

The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that law enforcement’s use of warrants to collect large amounts of cellphone location data requires privacy protections under the Fourth Amendment. The case centered on a bank robbery, where prosecutors relied in part on cellphone location data obtained from Google LLC through a “geofence warrant.” Unlike traditional warrants aimed […] The post Supreme Court rules constitutional privacy protections apply to geofence warrants appeared first on SiliconANGLE.