Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to weigh arguments for and against using geofence warrants while investigating criminal cases.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether dragnet warrants that law enforcement uses to scoop up smartphone users’ location ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A detective investigating an armed bank robbery in Midlothian turned to Google when other leads in the case didn’t work out, obtaining a search warrant for the location history ...

Alfred Ng was a senior reporter for CNET News. He was raised in Brooklyn and previously worked on the New York Daily News's social media and breaking news teams. Geofence warrants are facing legal ...

I wrote last week about an oral argument in the Fourth Circuit involving geofence warrants. Geofence warrants are warrants to obtain the location data that Google users let Google collect if they opt ...

Daniel "DJ" Phillips, 19, of Washington Township, wanted a normal high school experience, but someone decided to steal his photos and create fake social media accounts, pretending to be him. That led ...

Jane Bambauer, a leading information law scholar (both on the First Amendment and the Fourth Amendment side), wrote up these thoughts on the recent geofencing case, on which Orin had also written; I'm ...

Civil liberties advocates have long argued that “geofence” search warrants are unconstitutional for their ability to ensnare entirely innocent people who were nearby at the time a crime was committed.

Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News, focusing on Google and Yahoo. He previously worked for PandoDaily and Fortune Magazine, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, on ...