Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time — all without a warrant. The ...
Editor’s Note: This story is the third installment in a series produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network. Goliad County police kicked off one human smuggling ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday on whether police can use cell phone location data, known as geo-fencing, to help solve criminal cases. Now, the nation is awaiting the high ...
When an investigation into a Virginia bank robbery went cold a few years back, local police turned to Google. Authorities served the tech giant with a "geofence warrant," which required the company to ...
A new security feature rolled out to select models of the latest iPhones and iPads this week will make it more difficult for law enforcement, spies, and malicious hackers to obtain a person’s precise ...
The Fourth Amendment generally requires the government to get a warrant before searching your private information, but government agencies are circumventing the intent of the Constitution by simply ...
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