The Supreme Court has restricted the use of geofence warrants, which allow law enforcement to tap into tech company databases to track users near a crime scene. The majority ruled that this technique violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches. This decision follows a case where police used a geofence warrant to obtain location data from Google, which ultimately led to the arrest and conviction of a suspect. The core issue was whether these searches constitute an unreasonable government intrusion into private location data.
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