Courthouse News: En banc Fourth Circuit panel uses bank robbery to debate geofence warrants

Courthouse News: En banc Fourth Circuit panel uses bank robbery to debate geofence warrants by Joe Dodson (“The full panel of judges discussed the constitutionality of law enforcement using millions of people’s data to solve crimes. [¶] An en banc panel of the Fourth Circuit Thursday used a bank robbery to debate whether geofence warrants violated the Fourth Amendment. [¶] The nearly two-hour oral arguments allowed the 15 judges to enjoy a contentious discussion of Google’s role in law enforcement investigations. [¶] ‘It cast a digital dragnet that gave police discretion over what to search and see,’ Attorney Michael Price of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, representing the defendant, said. ‘It was like making a landlord search every unit of a million-story apartment.’”)

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