Supreme Court signals location data searches should require a warrant
2026-04-28T02:51:59Z•e0e775e9f5fa31c8879f510f6ab3f629695055dd80dd486c9632ee62f928027a
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What happened
Five notable developments: (1) The U.S. Supreme Court signaled that searches of location data (geofencing/reverse location queries) should require a warrant, a potential major restriction on warrantless bulk location searches. (2) Tennessee banned cryptocurrency ATMs amid widespread scams (government impersonation, tech support fraud, romance and “pig butchering”), citing overseas criminal misuse. (3) A California money launderer was sentenced to more than five years for enabling a cybercriminal organization that stole about $260 million in cryptocurrency. (4) DFRLab identified a Spamouflage‑t
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