EFF had co-authored an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the Chatrie v. United States geofencing case. Here's a statement from EFF Surveillance Litigation Director Andrew Crocker:
"We applaud the Supreme Court's decision in Chatrie v. United States. The Court reaffirmed that you have an expectation of privacy in location data that reveals your movements in the physical world, and that even short-term surveillance of these movements is a search subject to the Fourth Amendment. (1/3)
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"In recent years, police around the country have relied on geofence warrants like the one in this case tens of thousands of times to cast dragnets that violate the privacy of innocent bystanders, all without even targeting a known suspect or device. (2/3)
"Although the Court stopped short of striking down these warrants as inherently unconstitutional, we look forward to pressing lower courts to eliminate these warrants once and for all." (3/3)
@eff Oh, I'd really like to know how this might apply to those stupid ALPRs and the new tech coming to them.