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Supreme Court rules that broad cell phone location data sweeps require warrants (www.nbcnews.com)
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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 hours ago

Poor titling. The restriction is not in place. Thry have only sent it back to the lower federal court to let them determine if it counts as a 4th amendment search before making a decision. The NPR article is significantly better. https://www.npr.org/2026/06/29/nx-s1-5844697/supreme-court-restricts-use-of-geofence-warrants

If this does come back as a 4th amendment search, this might kill Flock and other fixed are surveillance devices in a really fun way. God, I can only hope. (But realistically I know they won't restrict shit)