Dossier
smartphone location data
Coverage of smartphone location data in the Nexus archive.
- US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections
The US Supreme Court ruled that geofence warrants requiring smartphone location data must include constitutional privacy protections under the Fourth Amendment. Justice Elena Kagan authored the majority opinion, supporting critics who argue such warrants constitute an unconstitutional dragnet.
- US supreme court hears whether smartphone location data warrants infringe users’ privacy
The US Supreme Court is hearing a case on whether 'geofence warrants' for smartphone location data violate privacy rights. The case, Chatrie v United States, involves Okello Chatrie, who was tracked via his phone after robbing a Virginia bank in 2019, with his lawyers challenging the admissibility of the evidence.