The US Supreme Court is considering the constitutionality of geofence warrants. > The case centers on the trial of Okello Chatrie, a Virginia man who pleaded > guilty to a 2019 robbery outside of Richmond and was sentenced to almost 12 > years in prison for stealing $195,000 at gunpoint. > > Police probing the crime found security camera footage showing a man on a cell > phone near the credit union that was robbed and asked Google to produce > anonymized location data near the robbery site so they could determine who > committed the crime. They did so, providing police with subscriber data for > three people, one of whom was Chatrie. Police then searched Chatrie’s home and > allegedly surfaced a gun, almost $100,000 in cash and incriminating notes...

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An advocacy groups is filing a Fourth Amendment challenge against automatic license plate readers. > “The City of Norfolk, Virginia, has installed a network of cameras that make > it functionally impossible for people to drive anywhere without having their > movements tracked, photographed, and stored in an AI-assisted database that > enables the warrantless surveillance of their every move. This civil rights > lawsuit seeks to end this dragnet surveillance program,” the lawsuit notes. > “In Norfolk, no one can escape the government’s 172 unblinking eyes,” it > continues, referring to the 172 Flock cameras currently operational in > Norfolk. The Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and > seizures and has been ruled in many cases to protect against warrantless > government surveillance, and the lawsuit specifically says Norfolk’s > installation violates that.”...