Law enforcement officials frequently draw virtual fences around areas of interest and require Google to identify every cellphone in the area using cell location history. Dubbed a “geofence search,” ...

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The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that police must obtain warrants to conduct wide searches of cell phone data at crime scenes, also known as "geofence" searches. In its ruling on Chatrie v. United States, ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court held Monday that constitutional privacy protections extend to cellphone location information, ruling in the case of a bank robber whose identity was discovered through a geofence ...

The case involved “geofence” searches, which allow law enforcement to find suspects and witnesses by sweeping up location data from cellphones near crime scenes. By Ann E. Marimow and Adam Liptak ...

WASHINGTON — In a ruling applying individual constitutional protections to new technology, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that sweeping use of cellphone location data requires a warrant. Subscribe ...

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a pair of rulings 29 June that will have far-reaching impacts on citizens' location privacy and how issues related to privacy in general are enforced by the federal ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Updated on June 29 at 3:50 p.m. The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that when law enforcement officials used a “geofence warrant ...

The Supreme Court on Monday said that police must generally obtain a warrant to gather detailed location data tracked by smartphones, in a case that brings into sharper relief the Constitution’s ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court held today that a dragnet search using Google’s location history data is covered by the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable search and seizures. The ...