Can police access your cellphone location data? Supreme Court issues huge ruling

An armed robbery from seven years ago has led to a monumental ruling that some Supreme Court justices say will have “seismic” effects on the way the Fourth Amendment is interpreted.

A man was indicted for a robbery of a credit union in 2019, demanding money at gunpoint and eventually making off with almost $200,000.

‘Police intrude on that constitutionally protected interest when they demand the information.’

The Midlothian, Virginia, robbery had no immediate suspects, so police obtained a warrant directing Google to produce anonymous location data for all devices within 150 meters of the bank within an hour of the crime.

This process included police obtaining the data, then requesting information on a more narrowed subset of the data, before finally asking Google to provide information on three