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Close the Shades: The #SupremeCourt, #google Location History, and the Reach of the #FourthAmendment. Eight years ago, the Chief Justice of the United States wrote an opinion warning that #smartphones had handed the government "near perfect surveillance" capabilities, and that **the Fourth Amendment had to adapt or become meaningless** This week, the SAME Chief Justice spent two hours at oral argument **appearing to forget he had ever written it** What happened inside the Supreme Court this week was, depending on how you count, either the quiet unwinding of the most important privacy ruling of the last decade or the moment a majority of the justices decided **the architecture of your phone is now a constitutional argument the government gets to make against you** [sub needed] https://reclaimthenet.org/geofence-warrants-fourth-amendment-supreme-court

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