{"id":247847,"date":"2026-04-26T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/watch-the-supreme-court-case-that-could-redefine-your-digital-privacy-npr\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T19:16:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:16:32","slug":"watch-the-supreme-court-case-that-could-redefine-your-digital-privacy-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/watch-the-supreme-court-case-that-could-redefine-your-digital-privacy-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: The Supreme Court case that could redefine your digital privacy : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/04\/26\/g-s1-118359\/supreme-court-geofencing-explainer-video\">Watch: The Supreme Court case that could redefine your digital privacy : NPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/04\/26\/g-s1-118359\/supreme-court-geofencing-explainer-video\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/04\/26\/g-s1-118359\/supreme-court-geofencing-explainer-video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-26 03:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.npr.org\">www.npr.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t see the video above?\u00a0Watch it here.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Virginia used a technique called geofencing to tap into Google&#8217;s databases to find out who was near the scene of a bank robbery in the town of Midlothian, where a robber pulled out a gun and subsequently fled with $195,000.<\/p>\n<p>Geofencing allows the government to draw a virtual fence around a geographic area where a crime was committed. After that, the government seeks a warrant \u2014 not to search a home or office, but to require a tech company to search its data to identify any of its millions of users who were within the geofence line at the time of the crime.<\/p>\n<p>The technique is under legal scrutiny because of the Fourth Amendment&#8217;s ban on unreasonable searches of people, their homes, papers, and effects, unless police obtain a warrant issued by a neutral magistrate, and unless the search<strong> <\/strong>is aimed at obtaining specific evidence of a crime.<\/p>\n<p>The question before the U.S. Supreme Court is whether geofencing is ingenious, Orwellian, or both. And, ultimately, is it constitutional?<\/p>\n<p>Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/04\/26\/g-s1-118359\/supreme-court-geofencing-explainer-video\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch: The Supreme Court case that could redefine your digital privacy : NPR https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/04\/26\/g-s1-118359\/supreme-court-geofencing-explainer-video Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1920x1080+0+0\/resize\/1400\/quality\/85\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa5%2F0d%2Fec5bb2774001b1d0ef0338845a66%2Fnina-map-3.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247847","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\/247847"}],"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=247847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247849,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247847\/revisions\/247849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}