Technology Jun 29, 2026 · 1 min read

Supreme Court ruling guts government’s use of geofence warrants

SCOTUS falls short of deeming geofence warrants unconstitutional, though.

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by Ashley Belanger
Supreme Court ruling guts government’s use of geofence warrants

The Fourth Amendment protects a user’s “location history,” the Supreme Court ruled Monday.

The same logic already applied to a cellphone’s tracking, and the high court found “no good reason exists to reach a different result for Location History” collected by third parties like Google.

Split 6-3, the majority agreed that the government needs a warrant and must show reasonable cause to turn a phone's location-tracking services into a government surveillance tool.

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