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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mark Sherman

Supreme Court rules constitutional privacy protections apply to cellphone users location history

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The Supreme Court held Monday that constitutional privacy protections extend to cellphone location information, ruling in the case of a bank robber whose identity was discovered through a geofence warrant.

Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the 6-3 court that people don’t forfeit expectations of privacy even when they opt into Google’s location history.

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