Supreme Court agrees to decide if police can seek sweeping cellphone location data in investigations

The Supreme Court agreed to review whether police warrants that allow access to large amounts of cellphone location data to identify people near a crime scene are constitutional. This practice, known as geofencing, has divided lower courts, with some ruling it as a sweeping warrant prohibited under the 4th Amendment. The case stems from a 2019 bank robbery in Virginia, where police used geofence warrants to identify the suspect by collecting location data from Google. The federal government argues that these warrants do not constitute a search, while Google has changed its policy to make it harder to comply with such warrants.