Police must obtain a warrant when seeking sweep of cellphone location data, Supreme Court rules

Police must obtain a warrant when seeking sweep of cellphone location data, Supreme Court rules

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the use of a “geofence warrant” to capture location data from cell phones in search of a robbery suspect constituted a search for Fourth Amendment purposes, a decision that means officers will have to obtain a warrant to access such data in the future. Justice...

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