Bloomberg Law: Google’s Location Data Move Will Reshape Geofence Warrant Use

Bloomberg Law: Google’s Location Data Move Will Reshape Geofence Warrant Use by Skye Whitley (“There are at least three cases seeking to suppress geofence-based evidence before federal appellate courts in the Fourth, Fifth, and District of Columbia circuits. Dozens more are percolating in the federal district courts, even as the likelihood of future geofencing cases dwindles after Google’s change takes effect, said Michael Price, the litigation director at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Fourth Amendment Center. A key point of contention in litigation has been whether an individual’s location history is their private data or Google’s business records. Google’s decision indicates the former is true, he added. ‘I would encourage anybody litigating one of these cases to make use of it because I think it really does put that question to bed of whose data is it and is it private,’ Price said.”)