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Victory! Supreme Court Says Constitution Protects People’s Location Data

You have an expectation of privacy in location data that reveals your movements in the physical world, and even short-term surveillance of these movements is a search subject to the Fourth Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today in Chatrie v. United States . The case involved geofence warrants, a form of dragnet surveillance police have used to vacuum up location data from electronic devices of people who happen to be in the vicinity of a crime. EFF had joined the American Civil Liberties

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Published: 29 June 2026
Source: EFF Deeplinks
Category: Field notes
Topics: Privacy
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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ethics.ai (29 June 2026), “Victory! Supreme Court Says Constitution Protects People’s Location Data,” evidence record 1674, https://ethics.ai/record/1674 (originally published by EFF Deeplinks).

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