{"id":237038,"date":"2026-04-29T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/geofencing-privacy-case-supreme-court-weighs-surveillance\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T10:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:35:14","slug":"geofencing-privacy-case-supreme-court-weighs-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/geofencing-privacy-case-supreme-court-weighs-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"Geofencing Privacy Case: Supreme Court Weighs Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amac.us\/newsline\/politics\/your-whereabouts-are-known-at-all-times\/\">Geofencing Privacy Case: Supreme Court Weighs Surveillance<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amac.us\/newsline\/politics\/your-whereabouts-are-known-at-all-times\/\">https:\/\/amac.us\/newsline\/politics\/your-whereabouts-are-known-at-all-times\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-29 10:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"amac.us\">amac.us<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2026<\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p>by Betsy McCaughey<\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t1 Comments \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tPrint<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBig Brother is watching you\u201d is no longer a fictional admonition. Everywhere you go, your location is recorded by phone technology, license plate readers, Uber and Lyft transactions, and cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Privacy? Forget about it. Your location history is in the hands of many tech companies. Can the police and other government agencies force tech companies to share that information about you? The U.S. Supreme Court took up that question on Monday. The court\u2019s decision could have a widespread impact on your privacy.<\/p>\n<p>If your location history puts you within a 1-mile radius of a bank robbery with hundreds of other people, you could become a suspect, swept up in the wide net cast to find the perpetrator.<\/p>\n<p>Many people find the growing surveillance creepy, but law enforcement is using this technology \u2013 called geofencing \u2013 to solve crimes rapidly, including some that would go unsolved.<\/p>\n<p>During Monday\u2019s oral arguments in Chatrie v. United States, the justices tackled this tradeoff between privacy and effective crimefighting, and how the U.S. Constitution, written over two centuries ago, can be interpreted to safeguard your rights in the age of Big Brother.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, a gunman robbed the Call Federal Credit Union in Midlothian, Virginia. Stumped, the police secured a \u201cgeofence warrant\u201d instructing Google to produce location history records for every digital device within a 17.5-acre circle around the crime scene for a two-hour timeframe. Then the police asked Google for the identity of three device users, including the man ultimately charged with the crime, Okello Chatrie.<\/p>\n<p>Chatrie claims his Fourth Amendment right to be protected from \u201cunreasonable\u201d government search was violated when police used geofencing and compelled Google to disclose his location history.<\/p>\n<p>The case is making for strange bedfellows, bringing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amac.us\/newsline\/politics\/your-whereabouts-are-known-at-all-times\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geofencing Privacy Case: Supreme Court Weighs Surveillance https:\/\/amac.us\/newsline\/politics\/your-whereabouts-are-known-at-all-times\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-29 10:08:00 Source Domain: amac.us&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static-asset.amac.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/29100654\/Big-Brother-Is-Watching.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237040,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237038\/revisions\/237040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}