The Supreme Court ruled in Chatrie v. The United States that collecting phone location data from a geographic area qualifies as a Fourth Amendment search, a decision with major implications for digital privacy. The ruling builds on Carpenter and signals that new technologies do not weaken constitutional protections for location information held by third-party companies like Google. #Chatrie #Google #Carpenter
Keypoints
- The Supreme Court said geofence-based location collection is a Fourth Amendment search.
- The ruling came in Chatrie v. The United States and involved Google location data.
- The majority said people retain a reasonable expectation of privacy in cell phone location records.
- Justice Gorsuch argued the data should be treated as personal property.
- Dissenting justices warned the decision could reshape Fourth Amendment doctrine for years.
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