Bringing a smartphone to a bank robbery? 4th Amendment issue hits Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is deciding whether police tracking Okello Chatrie through his Samsung Galaxy S9 phone's location data during a bank robbery investigation violated his Fourth Amendment rights. The case involves a 'reverse search' of Google's location data, which captured information from hundreds of millions of phones.
Okello Chatrie was convicted of bank robbery after police tracked him through his smartphone. The Supreme Court must now decide whether this tracking violated Chatrie's Fourth Amendment protection from unlawful search. Police used a 'geofence' search of Google's location data to identify Chatrie's phone among 19 others near the bank during the robbery. The search involved data from over 500 million Google users. Chatrie pleaded guilty to robbing Call Federal Credit Union at gunpoint on May 20, 2019. The case raises concerns about the potential for abuse of such 'reverse searches' and their impact on civil liberties.
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