💻 Technology 23h ago · Ashley Belanger

Supreme Court ruling guts government’s use of geofence warrants

Ars Technica
Technology and science news
View Channel →
Supreme Court ruling guts government’s use of geofence warrants
Source ↗ 👁 0 💬 0
The Fourth Amendment protects a user’s “location history,” the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
The same logic already applied to a cellphone’s tracking, and the high court found “no good reason exists to reach a different result for Location History” 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.Read full article
Comments

Comments (0)

Sign in to join the discussion

More Like This

Taiwanese Authorities Reportedly Raid Supermicro in Move That Could Signal Big Change For AI Chip Exporters
Gizmodo · 17h ago
Democrats Want to Do Their Own Project 2025. First Up: Kicking Kids Offline
Gizmodo · 19h ago
Security researchers tricked LLMs into giving them cocaine recipes by abusing role models for prompt injection
www.theregister.com - Articles · 19h ago
Why Is a San Diego Charter School Spending $500,000 on Two Humanoid Robots?
Gizmodo · 20h ago
I tried a hidden video trick in iOS 27, and it saved me a ton of frustration
Digital Trends · 20h ago
Four years into Ukraine invasion, Russia turns influence-ops back to US and Europe
www.theregister.com - Articles · 21h ago