The US Supreme Court is gearing up to grapple with the extent to which smartphone users surrender their Fourth Amendment rights when they transmit their locations to digital service providers.
“It is a huge case,” said David Rudovsky, a civil rights and criminal defense attorney with Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feinberg & Lin.
Chatrie v. United States, set for argument Monday, deals with a law enforcement tool that enables investigators to obtain cellphone-location data from third-party companies to identify account holders near the location of an alleged a crime when it occurred.
Police have used geofence warrants to solve difficult ...