You can get dragged into a police investigation by proximity alone — for now

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Supreme Court will soon rule on the legality of controversial ‘geofence warrants.’ The Supreme Court will soon rule on the legality of controversial ‘geofence warrants.’ Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A years-old bank heist may soon have major privacy implications for every American who owns a cellphone. On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Chatrie v. United States, a case involving police’s use of controversial “geofence warrants” to find and arrest Okello Chatrie, the suspect of a 2019 bank robbery outside Richmond, Virginia. At stake is how private your location data — and any other information you store with a large tech company — actually is. Chatrie was tracked down via the Location History feature on Google Maps, which can identify a person’s location within t