A bank robber's cellphone gave him away. Now the Supreme Court is hearing his case

追加: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]Supreme Court is set to debate whether police can request sweeping cell phone location data for investigations. The case stems from a Virginia bank robbery in 2019. Police served Google with a geofence warrant after the case went cold. So, that required the company to search the location data of millions of people to find anyone whose cell phone put them near the bank at the time of the robbery.

[00:00:21]It's now being questioned whether those kinds of warrants violate the Constitution's ban on unreasonable searches. Lower courts remain divided on this issue.