The way police seek location information and data from tech companies to investigate crimes is under a microscope at the highest US court, in a closely watched case with broad implications for data privacy and law enforcement.
After about 2 hours of oral arguments in a case involving geofence warrants and Google, however, it was unclear whether the Supreme Court would take any action that could shift interpretations of the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits the government from conducting “unreasonable searches and seizures.”
The hearing Monday before the court was for Chatrie v. United States, which centers on a 2019 bank robbery in Richmond, Virginia, where $195,000 was stolen. When the case had gone cold, police obtained a geofence warrant from Google, granting law enforcement access to location data from and around the bank. Using the data, police were able to narrow the list of potential suspects in the area from 19 to three,
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