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MinnPost: These warrants let police sweep up data from anyone near a crime scene. A bipartisan Minnesota bill says they should be illegal. . “Law enforcement can request data related to crime scenes – or more expansive areas – and work backwards to look for suspects. A group of bipartisan Minnesota lawmakers says they should be illegal except in emergency scenarios. They argue reverse […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/19/minnpost-these-warrants-let-police-sweep-up-data-from-anyone-near-a-crime-scene-a-bipartisan-minnesota-bill-says-they-should-be-illegal/

MinnPost: These warrants let police sweep up data from anyone near a crime scene. A bipartisan Minnesota bill says they should be illegal.

MinnPost: These warrants let police sweep up data from anyone near a crime scene. A bipartisan Minnesota bill says they should be illegal. . “Law enforcement can request data related to crime…

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The New Oil Mar 4

#EFF to Supreme Court: Shut Down Unconstitutional #Geofence Searches

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-supreme-court-shut-down-unconstitutional-geofence-searches

#privacy #politics #SCOTUS

EFF to Supreme Court: Shut Down Unconstitutional Geofence Searches

The brief argues that geofence warrants—which compel companies to provide information on every electronic device in a given area during a given time period—are the digital version of the exploratory rummaging that the drafters of the Fourth Amendment specifically intended to prevent.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

PrivacyDigest Mar 4

EFF to #SupremeCourt : Shut Down #Unconstitutional #Geofence Searches

Digital #Dragnets Violate #FourthAmendment , Brief Argues

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union ( #ACLU ), the ACLU of #Virginia, and the Center on #Privacy & Technology at #GeorgetownLaw filed a brief Monday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that invasive geofence #warrants are unconstitutional.
#scotus #privacy

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-supreme-court-shut-down-unconstitutional-geofence-searches

EFF to Supreme Court: Shut Down Unconstitutional Geofence Searches

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Jan 29

#SupremeCourt to consider whether #geofence #warrants are #constitutional
Case centers Okello Chatrie, Virginia man who pleaded guilty to a 2019 robbery for stealing $195,000 at gunpoint.
#Police found security camera footage showing man on phone near credit union that was robbed and asked #Google to produce #locationdata near robbery site so they could determine who committed crime. They did so, providing police with subscriber data for 3 people, one of whom was Chatrie.
https://therecord.media/supreme-court-geofence-constitutionality

Supreme Court to consider whether geofence warrants are constitutional

The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case challenging the constitutionality of geofence warrants, which let law enforcement compel companies to provide the location data of cell phones at specific times and places.

The New Oil Jan 26

#SupremeCourt will decide on use of warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-location-tracking-warrants-9d8a0b0bcfcbc0a0891676e0e0a5f0c6

#geofence #privacy #surveillance #politics

Supreme Court to take up cellphone location tracking warrants

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide the constitutionality of broad search warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users to find people near crime scenes. The case the justices stepped into Friday involves what is a known as a “geofence warrant” that was served on Google in a police hunt for a bank robber in suburban Richmond, Virginia. Geofence warrants, an increasingly popular investigative tool, seek location data on every person within a specific location over a certain period of time. Police used the information to arrest Okello Chatrie in the 2019 robbery of the Call Federal Credit Union in Midlothian. Chatrie eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison.

AP News

psuPete Jan 24

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 24, 2026

Five highlights from this week: AI Fools Itself: Top #Chatbots Don’t Recognize AI-Generated Videos; FBI’s Washington Post Investigation Shows How Your Printer Can Snitch on You; #SCOTUS to Hear Case on #Geofence Warrants; Confusion and fear send people to #Reddit for cybersecurity advice; and AI-Powered #Surveillance in Schools.

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https://www.llrx.com/2026/01/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-january-24-2026/

WINGS_radio Jan 17

The #U.S. #SupremeCourt on Friday agreed to review the #constitutionality of #geofence #warrants, used by #lawenforcement to pinpoint suspects' whereabouts #using #geolocation data handed over by technology firms like #Google [via Law360]

Hacker News Jan 8

A geofence-based social network app 6 years in development

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Jun 23, 2025

#AppealsCourt Sidesteps The Big Questions on #Geofence #Warrants
The practical outcome of this sentence is clear: the evidence collected from a #geofencewarrant issued to Google can be used against the defendant in this case. But that is largely where the clarity ends.
As a result, the new opinion in Chatrie is a missed opportunity for the Fourth Circuit to join both other appellate courts to have considered the issue in finding geofence warrants unconstitutional
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/appeals-court-sidesteps-big-questions-geofence-warrants
#privacy

Appeals Court Sidesteps The Big Questions on Geofence Warrants

Another federal appeals court has ruled on controversial geofence warrants—sort of. The new opinion in Chatrie is a missed opportunity for the Fourth Circuit to join both other appellate courts to have considered the issue in finding geofence warrants unconstitutional.

Electronic Frontier Foundation