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The U.S. top court is expected to rule on whether to allow police to identify criminal suspects by dragnet searching the databases of tech giants.

Google will soon allow users to store their location data on their devices rather than on Google's servers, effectively ending a long-running surveillance practice that allowed police and law ...

The conservative justices appeared divided on what the Constitution requires for law enforcement to access location data.

For the first time, Google has published the number of geofence warrants it's historically received from U.S. authorities, providing a rare glimpse into how frequently these controversial warrants are ...

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 ...

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.