For most of modern policing, warrants were built around a simple premise: identify a place, identify an object, identify ...

Google will soon allow users to store their location data on their devices rather than on Google's servers, effectively ending a long-running surveillance practice that allowed police and law ...

As a breaking news reporter, I've spent hours sitting on hard courtroom benches listening to testimony from detectives, federal agents and others about how authorities solve crimes. Among the various ...

No available New Jersey decision analyzes geofence warrants. 'U.S. v. Rhine', a decision issued two weeks ago by the federal district court for the District of Columbia, denying a January 6 ...

Geofence warrants, the ability for police to get a broad amount of information about electronic devices in a given location, are unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment, according to a ruling ...

Civil liberties advocates have long argued that “geofence” search warrants are unconstitutional for their ability to ensnare entirely innocent people who were nearby at the time a crime was committed.

A recent circuit split over the constitutionality of geofence warrants has garnered some attention from attorneys and privacy professionals. But it also underscored an important fact: tech providers ...

I wrote last week about an oral argument in the Fourth Circuit involving geofence warrants. Geofence warrants are warrants to obtain the location data that Google users let Google collect if they opt ...

In March 2022, I had a long post on the district court's ruling in United States v. Chatrie, the first federal district court ruling on geofence warrants and the Fourth Amendment. Today the Fourth ...

CHARLOTTE — Investigators have sought assistance from Google to obtain warrants that request the company to identify phones in specific areas during criminal activities. WATCH: Thieves use U-Haul to ...

“We’ve witnessed in recent years how New Yorkers protesting against police brutality have been subjected to unconstitutional electronic searches. These searches enable government agencies to track the ...