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Supreme Court to decide legality of geofence search warrants: The justices will consider whether criminal investigators can use broad sweeps of cell-phone location data.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/16/supreme-court-geofence-warrants-00734779
8 Comments
Prox@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 209d
$5 says they'll allow it since there's nothing in the constitution that explicitly prohibits geofence warrants.
hector@lemmy.today · 18 pts · 209d
4th amendment absolutely forbids that.
They will likely allow it, but good faith readings of the constitution will not be a factor. The bill of rights got ratfucked before most of us were born and the police state is built on the fear of the others.
wolfrasin@lemmy.today · 18 pts · 209d
Every person in the geofence of the protest gets camped? Yeah. That's exactly what this is
hector@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 209d
They already can use stingers to see all phones and texts and calls from cell towers. It impersonates a cell tower and forwards it through. As I understand it. After 9/11 they had grants and distributed them nationwide through some homeland security thing. State police, larger districts all have them.
This might just make it legal to use that info in court.
As of now they need to find a plausible legal way they found that info to use it in court, or other evidences.
cmoney@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 209d
Spoiler alert, 6 to 3 ruling in favor of Geofence search warrants. The real question is what
bribegratuity will Clarence Thomas get, a motorhome, luxury vacation, or a ride on a private plane? We'll just have to wait and see._haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 209d
Don't want to get caught up in some ridiculous legal farce? I guess just stop using your cell phone.
santa@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 209d
Yeah. There is stuff back in the 1600’s with witches that covers geofencing.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 208d
Leave smartphone at home, bring burner to protests.