News Summary

• The case, Chatrie v. United States, centers on the government’s controversial use of so-called “geofence” search warrants.
• Law enforcement and federal agents use these warrants to compel tech companies, like Google, to turn over information about which of its billions of users were in a certain place and time.
• Civil liberties advocates have long argued that geofence warrants are inherently overbroad and unconstitutional as they return information about people who are nearby yet have no connection to an alleged incident.