Supreme Court signals location data searches should require a warrant
2026-04-28T08:52:00Z•1fa3bbda6c6cd213dec1db9c4c8d25763652d14fd54106debaa99059b7b39fb6
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What happened
Multiple security and legal developments: the U.S. Supreme Court signaled that law enforcement use of location-data searches (including geofencing) likely requires a warrant, a significant privacy and investigative-limits ruling; Tennessee banned cryptocurrency ATMs amid scams (government impersonation, tech-support, romance/pig-butchering frauds); a California money launderer was sentenced to ~5 years for facilitating ~ $260M in crypto thefts; a disinformation operation linked to the Spamouflage influence network targeted Tibetan parliament-in-exile elections; and Italy extradited an alleged,
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