Techdirt: Government’s ‘Reverse’ Warrant Rejected By Two Consecutive Federal Judges

Techdirt: Government’s ‘Reverse’ Warrant Rejected By Two Consecutive Federal Judges by Tim Cushing (“Warrants are supposed to have a certain amount of particularity. These warrants have none. All they have are some coordinates and a clock. Fortunately, as the EFF reports, some judges are pushing back. ‘Two federal magistrate judges in three separate opinions have ruled that a geofence warrant violates the Fourth Amendment’s probable cause and particularity requirements. Two of these rulings, from the federal district court in Chicago, were recently unsealed and provide a detailed constitutional analysis that closely aligns with arguments EFF and others have been making against geofence warrants for the last couple years.’ The unsealed order [PDF] — written by Magistrate Judge M. David Weisman — deals with a stolen pharmaceuticals investigation. Judge Weisman has a big problem with the vast amount of data this would give investigators and the lack of limits they’re willing to apply to themselves.”)