The Supreme Court just granted your location data the same protections as other personal data. Here's how that affects you.

On Monday in Chatrie v. United States, the Supreme Court held that government-ordered analysis of data collected via Google's ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has voted 6-3 that smartphone location data requires privacy protection under the Fourth Amendment, Tom's Guide reports. The ruling will make it harder for law enforcement ...

The 6-3 ruling in Chatrie v. United States held that a so-called geofence warrant — which compels companies such as Google to ...

On June 29, 2026, the Supreme Court decided Chatrie v. United States, holding that obtaining cell-phone location data from a ...

A recent New York court case upheld a murder conviction despite claims that DNA evidence used violated the defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights. The case highlights ongoing legal questions about ...

Kagan insists that the Fourth Amendment cannot be defeated by slicing invasions of privacy into pieces small enough to appear ...

Under what has come to be known as the Katz test, a defendant seeking to invoke Fourth Amendment protections against a warrantless government search must prove that he or she had a subjective ...

In September, the Supreme Court rendered obsolete the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on suspicionless seizures by the police. When the court stayed the district court’s decision in Noem v. Vasquez ...