The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether broad police requests for cellphone location data—known as geofence warrants—violate the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches. The case stems from a 2019 Virginia bank robbery in which investigators used a court‑approved geofence warrant to obtain location data from Google identifying phones near the crime scene, eventually leading to the conviction of Okello Chatrie. During oral arguments, several justices signaled that accessing such location data likely constitutes a search requiring a warrant, while also questioning how specific those warrants must be in terms of geography and time. The case raises broader privacy concerns, as geofence searches can sweep in data from many innocent people and potentially be used to track sensitive activities such as religious services or political protests. The court’s decision could reshape how law enforcement nationwide uses digital location data in criminal investigations. [nbcnews.com]