Chatrie v. United States
The Court holds that police conduct a Fourth Amendment search when they obtain a person's Google Location History data, because an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in his cell-phone location information. That expectation is not defeated by the short, two-hour span of data the government obtained or by the fact that the records were held by a third-party company. The Court leaves for the Fourth Circuit the further question whether this particular geofence warrant made the search reasonable. CASE: Chatrie v. United States AUTHOR: Kagan, J. DECIDED: 2026-06-29 OPINION…
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