Amazon is reportedly taking the highly precise tracking systems it perfected for package logistics and applying them directly to its human workforce. Citing leaked internal documents, Business Insider ...

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,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that law enforcement officers invade a cell phone user’s reasonable expectation of privacy when they access historical location data through Google “geofence” warrants.

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 ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives canceled its contract for a surveillance tool that enables warrantless tracking of mobile devices after lawmakers, a ...

It is easy to forget how much of an impact the smartphone has had on our daily lives and our society. About 91% of Americans own a smartphone, which means most of us are walking around with a device ...

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