Supreme Court Rules Fourth Amendment Covers Your Location Data

The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 that the Fourth Amendment protects individuals' privacy regarding phone location data, requiring warrants for broad sweeps. This decision sends a Virginia bank robbery case involving Okello Chatrie back to lower courts. Chatrie was convicted after police used a geofence warrant to identify him via security footage. Geofence warrants allow law enforcement to compel tech companies to provide data from all devices present at a specific location and time during crimes.