Supreme Court weighs whether police can demand Google location data

The Supreme Court grappled with the constitutionality of law enforcement’s use of Google location history data to track down a suspect, in a case that could further define the Constitution’s protections for digital privacy. Some of the justices seemed inclined to uphold what are known as geofence warrants, a new tool that police use to narrow down suspects based on location data collected by companies such as Google. Although some justices seemed to agree that a warrant is necessary to obtain that data, they wrestled with how such warrants square with the Constitution, drafted long before the advent of technology that could pinpoint an individual’s location.