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The Supreme Court will hear a case on whether police can compel cellphone location data with a warrant, potentially redefining Fourth Amendment protections for location history and real-time tracking in the digital era.
The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether police warrants that sweep large amounts of cellphone location data near crime scenes are constitutional, a practice accused of violating the Fourth Amendment by gathering information from millions of innocent people; lower courts are split on the issue, and the government argues such warrants are not searches when users opt into location services, with Google's policy changes potentially limiting future use.