CNET: Supreme Court Weighs Arguments Over How Police Request Location Data to Solve Crimes

“A spokesperson for the Electronic Privacy Information Center said the Chatrie v. United States case is important because it examines how much latitude the government has to use location services to identity a suspect. Alan Butler, EPIC’s executive director and president, said in a statement that geofence searches are ‘an incredibly invasive investigative technique that threatens the Fourth Amendment rights of hundreds of millions of individuals.'”

“Butler went on to say: ‘The court should hold that the Constitution protects our digital data even when it is stored by an app or cloud provider. The court should ensure that the highly sensitive records generated by our phones cannot be obtained without particularized suspicion and close judicial oversight.'”

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