Surveillance cameras captured the loud thump of bicyclist Pamela Morehouse being hit from behind on a Sunday evening bike ride in Crescent City, California, three miles from the Pacific Ocean near the ...

In March 2022, I had a long post on the district court's ruling in United States v. Chatrie, the first federal district court ruling on geofence warrants and the Fourth Amendment. Today the Fourth ...

Though a handful of cases found that geofencing warrants are unconstitutional, the rulings were narrow, and unlikely to slow the growing prominence of these warrants, which look to obtain data from ...

I wrote last week about an oral argument in the Fourth Circuit involving geofence warrants. Geofence warrants are warrants to obtain the location data that Google users let Google collect if they opt ...

The circuit split might just persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the matter, breaking its now six-year hiatus from hearing Fourth Amendment cases. In the span of two months, the Fourth and ...

Civil liberties advocates have long argued that “geofence” search warrants are unconstitutional for their ability to ensnare entirely innocent people who were nearby at the time a crime was committed.

Geofencing technology is revolutionizing how businesses engage with customers, manage operations, and ensure security in 2024. Companies can activate location-specific actions and strategies by ...

Warrants must be approved by a judge and initial data is anonymous, but names typically come later Details are scant on how police and Google work together The practice raises privacy and accuracy ...