After case in which Google was served warrant, US Supreme Court restricts use of Geofence warrants: What are they that court has called violation of Fourth Amendment

In what can be termed as a major ruling for digital privacy, the Supreme Court of the United States has restricted the use of “Geofence warrants”. In a recent ruling, the court has announced limits on geofence searches by law enforcement agencies. For those unaware, “Geofence warrants” are a relatively recent law enforcement technique in which police tap into the databases of tech companies to see who was near the scene of a crime.

The relatively new law enforcement technique allows police to sweep up location data from giant tech-firm databases to see who was near a crime scene.