Cell phone data collected around a 2019 bank robbery will face scrutiny as the justices are increasingly asked to square Constitutional rights with quickly evolving technology.

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review the constitutionality of geofence warrants, which allow law enforcement to demand companies turn over information on cellphones online at a location during a ...

County police officers were investigating a theft of farm equipment. They applied for a “geofence warrant” to be served on Google: Tomanek v. State, 261 Md. App. 694, 703 (2024). The Tomanek Court ...

Geofence warrants, the ability for police to get a broad amount of information about electronic devices in a given location, are unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment, according to a ruling ...

A recent circuit split over the constitutionality of geofence warrants has garnered some attention from attorneys and privacy professionals. But it also underscored an important fact: tech providers ...

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review a challenge to geofence warrants filed by a man who was convicted of robbing a bank in 2019.

On August 9, 2024, the Fifth Circuit issued its decision in United States v. Smith, No. 23-60321, broadly holding: “that the use of geofence warrants … is unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment.” ...

The full panel of judges discussed the constitutionality of law enforcement using millions of people's data to solve crimes. RICHMOND, Va. (CN) — An en banc panel of the Fourth Circuit Thursday used a ...

Okello Chatrie pleaded guilty to robbing a bank after the lead detective served a geofence warrant on Google, requesting the location data of site users within a 150-meter radius of the bank around ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that geofence warrants, which allow police to collect data on individuals’ whereabouts, violate the Fourth Amendment. TechCrunch reported the ...