The US Supreme Court rules 6-3 that police use of geofence warrants triggers Fourth Amendment protections and narrows digital location searches.Justice Elena Kagan authors the majority opinion and remands the Richmond, Virginia bank robbery case that identified Okello Chatrie via a geofence warrant back to lower courts to assess reasonableness.The court says geofence warrants can sweep thousands of innocents and collect frequent location signals from GPS, Bluetooth, cell towers and Wi-Fi, and notes Google stopped storing such data on servers in 2023.Google acknowledges geofence orders pull sensitive locations,
Okello Chatrie pleaded guilty and received nearly 12 years, and Justice
Samuel Alito issues a sharp dissent warning of investigative costs.