The Supreme Court just made your phone’s location data much harder for police to get

Credit: Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR The US Supreme Court has ruled that Fourth Amendment protections extend to data, such as location history, that people hand over to companies like Google and Apple. The result means that police need a warrant to obtain that data. The 6-3 decision was over a case involving a 2019 bank robbery in which police used a geofence warrant to locate all devices near the crime scene.