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Supreme Court Protects Your Phone Location | Salt Lake City News
The Supreme Court just handed down a landmark ruling: your phone’s location history—even if you’ve opted into services like Google’s—is still protected by privacy rights. In a 6-3 decision, justices said just using your phone doesn’t mean you’ve surrendered your Fourth Amendment protections. The case stemmed from a bank robbery where police used a geofence warrant to track phones near the scene, eventually catching suspect Okello Chatrie. His lawyers argued the warrant swept up innocent bystanders’ data, while prosecutors claimed he had no privacy since he shared his location voluntarily. The…
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