The justices will consider whether criminal investigators can use broad sweeps of cell-phone location data.

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review a challenge to geofence warrants filed by a man who was convicted of robbing a bank in 2019.

Cell phone data collected around a 2019 bank robbery will face scrutiny as the justices are increasingly asked to square Constitutional rights with quickly evolving technology.

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review whether police warrants that allow access to large amounts of cellphone location data to identify people near a crime scene are constitutional.

I wrote last week about an oral argument in the Fourth Circuit involving geofence warrants. Geofence warrants are warrants to obtain the location data that Google users let Google collect if they opt ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A detective investigating an armed bank robbery in Midlothian turned to Google when other leads in the case didn’t work out, obtaining a search warrant for the location history ...

The case involves a challenge to so-called geofence warrants, which permit law enforcement officials to sweep up location data of people near crime scenes.

Civil liberties advocates have long argued that “geofence” search warrants are unconstitutional for their ability to ensnare entirely innocent people who were nearby at the time a crime was committed.

Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News, focusing on Google and Yahoo. He previously worked for PandoDaily and Fortune Magazine, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, on ...

Jane Bambauer, a leading information law scholar (both on the First Amendment and the Fourth Amendment side), wrote up these thoughts on the recent geofencing case, on which Orin had also written; I'm ...

The governor, mayor, police and a congresswoman gathered in Albuquerque to ease fears after three Muslim men were shot and killed in a similar ambush attack over 10 days in 2022. The unusual show of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether dragnet warrants that law enforcement uses to scoop up smartphone users’ location ...