"The Supreme Court heard arguments in Chatrie v. United States, a case involving police's use of controversial 'geofence warrants' to find and arrest Okello Chatrie, the suspect of a 2019 bank robbery outside Richmond, Virginia."
"Chatrie's attorney argues that the geofence inquiry constituted an unreasonable search and seizure and therefore violated the Fourth Amendment."
"A federal district court agreed, determining that police didn't have probable cause for a geofence warrant - but the court ultimately sided with the government, using the 'good faith exception' to justify the legality of the otherwise unconstitutional search."
The Supreme Court is set to decide on the legality of geofence warrants in the case of Chatrie v. United States. This case involves police using geofence warrants to track a suspect in a bank robbery through location data from Google Maps. The defense argues this method violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches. A federal district court initially agreed but ultimately sided with the government, citing the good faith exception. The appeals court upheld this decision, raising significant privacy concerns for cellphone users.
Read at The Verge
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]