A 6-3 ruling over Google Location History raises the stakes for companies that collect, store, or profit from data about ...

The Fourth Amendment protects a user’s “location history,” the Supreme Court ruled Monday. The same logic already applied to ...

The Supreme Court has held that constitutional privacy protections extend to cellphone location information, ruling in the ...

The majority found that a request by police for Google to turn over a suspect’s location history constituted a search ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

The case involved “geofence” searches, which allow law enforcement to find suspects and witnesses by sweeping up location data from cellphones near crime scenes.

Law enforcement officials frequently draw virtual fences around areas of interest and require Google to identify every ...

Unwary crime suspects could be tracked by investigators who had access to their phone location records.

The high court on Monday ruled that the use of a “geofence warrant” to capture location data from cell phones in search of a ...

Samsung Messages stops working for US users this July. Here's the fastest way to move your texts and message history to Google Messages before the cutoff. Omar Gallaga has covered technology, digital ...

UPDATE (June 25, 2025): Google is now rolling out Android 17 to the Google Pixel 10a. More info can be found at the end of the article. Summary: The Google Pixel 10a was announced in February 2026.