Electronic Frontier FoundationPeople shouldn’t fear being swept up in digital dragnet surveillance and becoming a criminal suspect just because they carried their cell phone in the vicinity of a crime. Now we can say the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals agree with us. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/federal-appeals-court-finds-geofence-warrants-are-categorically-unconstitutional
Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are “Categorically” Unconstitutional
In a major decision on Friday, the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that geofence warrants are “categorically prohibited by the Fourth Amendment.” Closely following arguments EFF has made in a number of cases, the court found that geofence warrants constitute the sort of “general,...