'Geofence Warrant' for All Cell Location Data From Area Near Robbery Is Ruled Unconstitutional
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1 April 2022
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1 April 2022
"Geofence warrant" was unconstitutional, says judge. Can the cops use Google location data to find anyone in an area at a given time? That's what a federal court was asked to decide recently. The case stems from a 2019 bank robbery in Virginia. Police got a "geofence warrant" to find anyone who was near the scene around the time the robbery took place. U.S. District Judge Hannah Lauck has now held that the search—which relied on cellphone data location histories—violated the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches, since it collected information on myriad people without having any evidence of their ...
'Geofence Warrant' for All Cell Location Data From Area Near Robbery Is Ruled Unconstitutional
"Geofence warrant" was unconstitutional, says judge. Can the cops use Google location data to find anyone in an area at...
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