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Knight First Amendment Institute: Supreme Court Recognizes Fourth Amendment Protection for Digital Location Data
June 29, 2026
NEW YORK, June 29 [Category: Media] -- The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University issued the following news release:

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Supreme Court Recognizes Fourth Amendment Protection for Digital Location Data

The U.S. Supreme Court today held that police conduct a Fourth Amendment search when they obtain digital location history through a geofence warrant, recognizing that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their location informati . . .

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