The U.S. Supreme Court has now ruled on the constitutionality of geofence warrants, SCOTUSblog reports. “The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that when law enforcement officials used a ‘geofence warrant’—a warrant that instructed Google to provide location data for cellphone users who were near a particular place during a specific time period—to obtain evidence used to convict a Virginia man of a 2019 bank robbery, they conducted a ‘search’ for purposes of the Fourth Amendment.” More on the tech side of this from John Gruber. Because Google stopped storing users’ location data in 2024 (Apple never collected such data), they ca no longer respond to geofence warrants in any event. But that doesn’t mean the question will always be moot in the future.

Previously: The Constitutionality of Geofence Warrants Is Before the U.S. Supreme Court Today.