{"id":285065,"date":"2026-07-02T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/whos-regulating-police-technology-its-not-the-courts\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T16:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:15:10","slug":"whos-regulating-police-technology-its-not-the-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/whos-regulating-police-technology-its-not-the-courts\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s Regulating Police Technology? It\u2019s Not the Courts."},"content":{"rendered":"

Who\u2019s Regulating Police Technology? It\u2019s Not the Courts.<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.techpolicy.press\/whos-regulating-police-technology-its-not-the-courts\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-07-02 16:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.techpolicy.press<\/a><\/p>\n

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen Monday, June 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Mariam Zuhaib)<\/p>\n

On Monday, the Supreme Court determined that when police demand a record of a user’s location history from Google, they ordinarily need to get a warrant based on probable cause.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an important decision. The Court recognized that Google\u2019s practice of creating a \u201ccomprehensive catalog\u201d of users\u2019 locations is a boon to law enforcement. What\u2019s more, the majority understood that, whether intentionally or not, Google had helped to create a \u201cvirtual panopticon\u201d that the government can now exploit more easily than ever before.<\/p>\n

But the case, Chatrie v. United States, also highlights an ongoing revolution in criminal procedure. For centuries, courts and lawmakers have been the primary regulators of law enforcement investigations, placing legal limits on how police can collect information. Now, companies like Google are becoming just as influential.<\/p>\n

In the set of events that gave rise to the case decided this week, Virginia police investigating a bank robbery sought a \u201cgeofence warrant,\u201d directing Google to give them access to the location history belonging to electronic devices that appeared within a 150 meter radius of the bank. But instead of simply getting the relevant information from Google, law enforcement enlisted Google to help, going back and forth with the company several times as police narrowed their list of users of interest. That data eventually led police to the defendant, Okello Chatrie, who was sentenced to serve over a decade in prison.<\/p>\n

As the Court acknowledges, this is an \u201cuncommon\u201d type of search. In fact, Chatrie argued that the demand was so broad as to be unreasonable: In order to even begin to determine who the wrongdoer might be, Google had to sift through the millions of location data points generated by ordinary customers who had done nothing wrong. The Supreme Court\u2019s decision kicks this crucial question back to the Fourth…<\/p>\n

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