Court Requires Warrants for Location Data

Washington6-3: US police need warrants for phone location data.

Geofence warrants pull all phones near a crime scene; the court held that opting into Google’s location tracking does not waive Fourth Amendment rights.

The Chatrie case returns to a lower court to test whether the original geofence search met probable cause.

Sources: Ars Technica, TheRegister.com, Bloomberg Business