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Victory! Supreme Court Says Constitution Protects People’s Location Data (www.eff.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Monkey@piefed.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] threeganzi@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This sounds like a great step in the right direction. Would this have any effect retrospectively?

[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Disclaimer -> NAL. I think it's extraordinarily rare for rulings to have retroactive effect. If sth was legal when you did it, you can't be held to account if that thing becomes illegal later on. That would open up all kinds of bad probs. It was OK at the time.

But geo-fence data already collected would fall under this decision in the future. So let's say there's 2024 data. Data still exists on some Google server. Now it's 2028. Cops would need a warrant to obtain the 2024 data in 2028.

That's my understanding. Again NAL.