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Court rules that law enforcement’s use of “geofence warrant” was a “search”
The Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement's use of a geofence warrant to obtain location data from Google for a 2019 bank robbery case constituted a 'search' under the Fourth Amendment. The case was remanded to the lower court to assess whether the search was 'reasonable.'
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- Supreme Court signals location data searches should require a warrant
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