Supreme Court rules 6-3 that Fourth Amendment protects phone location history data
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Will Sattelberg
Summary
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Chatrie v. United States that the Fourth Amendment protects individuals' location history data collected by tech companies like Google and Apple, requiring police to obtain a warrant before accessing such data. The decision extends privacy protections to data voluntarily supplied to tech companies, marking a significant win for digital privacy rights.
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· 3 pulledthe ruling actually fell in the general public's favor
allowing and extending Fourth Amendment protections even to data willfully supplied to tech companies like Google and Apple
thus requiring police officers [to obtain a warrant]
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