At the Pacific Legal Foundation Blog: "Supreme Court Urged to Restore Fourth Amendment Protections for Digital Data"

The Supreme Court begins a new term next week. In the coming months, the justices will consider cases touching nearly every corner of American life. Among the cases the Court is being asked to take up is one presenting an important question about digital privacy: can the government demand access to your location data from companies like Google without a warrant based on probable cause?

That question is at the heart of Chatrie v. United States. The case arises from a “geofence warrant” which let law enforcement sweep up information about everyone near the scene of a robbery—including many innocent bystanders. Pacific Legal Foundation filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of an amicus client urging the Court to hear the case and restore crucial Fourth Amendment protections for the digital age.

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