The Supreme Court ruled that the government needs a warrant to access a person’s cellphone location history. The court found in a 5 to 4 decision that obtaining such information is a search under the ...

On Monday, April 27, the Supreme Court will hear Chatrie v. United States, a case about police access to geofence data, a ...

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Chatrie arose from a 2019 bank robbery that proved difficult to solve. Hoping to identify a suspect, law enforcement applied for a geofence warrant seeking location data for every device associated ...

In Carpenter v. United States (2018), the U.S. Supreme Court held that warrantless government tracking of cellphone users via their cellphone location records violated the constitutional right to be ...