The Guardian: US Supreme Court Hears Whether Smartphone Location Data Warrants Infringe Users’ Privacy

“Google, for its part, has changed some of its geofencing policies since Chatrie was arrested. The tech giant has transferred this location data off its servers and on to people’s phones, so that it can’t comply with geofencing warrants in the same way any more, said Matthew Tokson, a law professor at the University of Utah. But the government is increasingly trying to obtain this information directly from cellphone providers and other companies, he adds. The case still affects ‘privacy protections for data stored in cloud services and collected by consumer apps,’ the Electronic Privacy Information Center noted in a press release.”

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