Supreme Court affirms privacy rights for cellphone location data
The Supreme Court ruled that constitutional privacy protections extend to cellphone location information, in a case involving a bank robber whose identity was uncovered through a geofence warrant. Justice Elena Kagan stated that individuals do not lose privacy expectations when sharing location data with services like Google. The court sent the case back to a lower court for further review, leaving the legality of the warrant undecided.
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