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Navigate to NW Tech Show - SCOTUS Restricts GPS Dragnets - July 10white background with red and black words: "The US supreme court has ruled that law enforcement's 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 use as an unconstitutional dragnet. Justice Elena Kagan wrote the majority opinion, which held that the sensitive data scooped up by "geofence warrants" counts as a fourth amendment search, and offers individuals a "reasonable expectation of privacy" ", even if they may be in a public area. "An individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in records about his cell phone's location, and police intrude on that constitutionally protected interest when they demand the information - even though for only a limited time, and from a third-party tech company," Kagan wrote. The judges ruled 6-3 in Chatrie v US, against the government, in a case that has been widely viewed as a test of how privacy rights translate into a new digital era."

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