US appeals court rules geofence warrants are unconstitutional

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Because tech companies, like Google, Uber, Snap and others, collect and store huge amounts of its users’ location data and histories on its servers, this data can be obtained by law enforcement; if the data didn’t exist, the problem would be moot.

But because the bank of data is so big, and because the entire database has to be scanned, the court ruled that there is no legal authority capable of authorizing a search, per a blog post by law professor Orin Kerr analyzing the ruling.

A federal appeals court has ruled that geofence warrants are unconstitutional, a decision that will limit the use of the controversial search warrants across several U.S.states.