Supreme Court signals location data searches should require a warrant
2026-04-28T14:51:57Z•81b04367821c242b5a2b7a28958c8ccd2283b3ee03b6b0549a0f01cd55a0a93f
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What happened
A set of security and privacy news: the U.S. Supreme Court signaled that location-data searches (including geofencing/reverse searches) should generally require a warrant, bolstering privacy protections; Tennessee banned cryptocurrency ATMs citing their use in overseas government-impersonation, tech-support, romance, and pig-butchering scams; a California man received a 5+ year sentence for laundering approximately $260M in stolen cryptocurrency; DFRLab attributed a disinformation campaign targeting the Tibetan parliament-in-exile to Spamouflage, a long-running China-linked influence network;/
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