Supreme Court Wrangles With Police Use of Cell Location Data to Find Suspects

Geofence searches allow law enforcement to find suspects and witnesses by sweeping up location data from cellphone users near ...

Supreme Court considers whether police can use Big Tech data to capture info from all cellphone users in a place and time

Geofencing warrants round up the location data of everyone in a specific place and time, whether or not they had any ...

Mobile Data Warrants, Fourth Amendment Collide at Supreme Court

The US Supreme Court is gearing up to grapple with the extent to which smartphone users surrender their Fourth Amendment rights when they transmit their locations to digital service providers.
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Android users could get cash from Google's $135 million data settlement

Android users may receive cash from Google's $135 million settlement for unauthorized cellular data use since 2017, with ...
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Four pieces of 'abnormal cell phone data' could crack Nancy Guthrie search

Law enforcement searching for Savannah Guthrie's 84 year old mother, Nancy Guthrie, needs to uncover four "valuable pieces of information" to solve her case. On Sunday, March 1, the Pima County ...
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Google's paying out $135M to settle Android data harvesting accusations

A preliminary settlement has been filed in a class action that claimed Google was quietly transferring Android user data over cellular connections. The case hinged on the “conversion” of cellular data ...