Supreme Court to decide whether geofence warrants are constitutional

Google urged the U.S. Supreme Court to consider geofence warrants unconstitutional, arguing these reverse warrants sweep in hundreds or thousands of innocent people by returning device location data for all devices inside a geographic area and time window; the article details how Google’s historical Timeline data and standard warrant-response practices can expand searches beyond initial bounds, highlights privacy and constitutional concerns illustrated by a 2019 robbery case, and advises users to review Location History and Web & App Activity settings while warning that the same reverse-warrant logic could be applied to other large datasets such as AI chat logs.