{"id":75514,"date":"2026-06-29T11:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/us-supreme-court-rules-geofence-warrants-require-constitutional-privacy-protections\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:01:22","slug":"us-supreme-court-rules-geofence-warrants-require-constitutional-privacy-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/us-supreme-court-rules-geofence-warrants-require-constitutional-privacy-protections\/","title":{"rendered":"US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement\u2019s use of warrants sweeping smartphone location data requires privacy protections, court rules<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/series\/us-politics-live\">US supreme court decisions \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US supreme court has ruled that law enforcement\u2019s use of <a href=\"https:\/\/theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/apr\/27\/us-supreme-court-smartphone-location-data-privacy\">sprawling warrants<\/a> that sweep up smartphone location data requires privacy protections under the fourth amendment, in a boost to critics who view their use as an unconstitutional dragnet.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Elena Kagan wrote the majority opinion, which held that the sensitive data scooped up by \u201cgeofence warrants\u201d counts as a fourth amendment search, and offers individuals a \u201creasonable expectation of privacy\u201d, even if they may be in a public area.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/29\/supreme-court-geofence-warrants-case-decision\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement\u2019s use of warrants sweeping smartphone location data requires privacy protections, court rules US supreme court decisions \u2013 live updates The US supreme court has ruled that law enforcement\u2019s use of sprawling warrants that sweep up smartphone location data requires privacy protections under the fourth amendment, in a boost to critics who view their &#8230; <a title=\"US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/us-supreme-court-rules-geofence-warrants-require-constitutional-privacy-protections\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}