The Real Problem With Banning Masks at Protests

The report examines evolving legal and technological constraints on law-enforcement digital surveillance: a federal appeals court finding geofence warrants unconstitutional in parts of the U.S., a New York ruling against warrantless border phone searches, and Google’s changes to location data retention that limit compliance with such warrants. It also underscores the difficulty of detecting police surveillance use and calls for reevaluating expectations of privacy in public spaces.