MLex Summary: Six law professors told a US appeals court that allowing law enforcement to initiate geofence queries with only a search warrant “will set the stage for a dramatic increase in law enforcement power to track location and many other sorts of private information.” They urged the court to rule that a geofence warrant in a case violated the Fourt Amendment rights of Okello Chatrie. They argued that “reverse investigative tools individually, and when chained together, risk massively increasing government power in a way that is in direct tension with traditional Fourth Amendment jurisprudence.”Read More
