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Supreme Court Limits Police Phone Tracking | Spokane News
The Supreme Court just ruled that cellphone location data is protected under the Fourth Amendment, calling it a digital diary of your movements—and you have a right to keep it private. This decision throws a wrench into “geofence warrants,” the tool police use to pull location data from phones in a specific area. The court says cops likely need a proper judge-issued warrant to access this info. The case began with a Virginia robbery, where geofence warrants helped identify a suspect—but civil liberties advocates feared it opened the door to mass surveillance. While the justices didn’t spell…
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