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Documented Misuse (2)
T969389Flock Safety / U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Tcf362fUnited States (WhatsApp users; journalists/activists) (2024)
T969389NSO Group (Pegasus spyware)
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Legal Cases (23)
Tcf362fChatrie v. United States (2026)
T969389Defendant won on the threshold question (6-3). Obtaining geofence location data is a Fourth Amendment search; vacated and remanded.
Tcf362fUnited States v. Smith (2024)
T969389Geofence warrant held unconstitutional; evidence admitted under good faith.
Tcf362fUnited States v. Chatrie (4th Cir.) (2024)
T969389Panel held obtaining ~2 hours of Google Location History via geofence warrant was not a Fourth Amendment search (third-party doctrine); en banc court...
Tcf362fUnited States v. Rhine (2023)
T969389Motion to suppress denied; geofence warrant upheld as sufficiently particular and supported by probable cause.
Tcf362fUnited States v. Moore-Bush (2022)
T969389En banc court split 3-3, leaving prior circuit precedent intact; conviction affirmed on good-faith grounds.
Tcf362fUnited States v. Tuggle (2021)
T969389Government won. 18 months of warrantless pole-camera surveillance was not a search.
Tcf362fTransUnion LLC v. Ramirez (2021)
T9693895-4; only plaintiffs whose inaccurate data was actually disclosed to third parties had Article III standing ('no concrete harm, no standing').
Tcf362fUnited States v. Wilson (2021)
T969389Suppression granted; warrantless police viewing of email attachments flagged only by Google's automated hash-matching exceeded the private-search...
Tcf362fWikimedia Foundation v. NSA (2021)
T969389Suit dismissed on state-secrets grounds despite a fact issue on standing; cert denied.
Tcf362fJewel v. NSA (2021)
T969389Summary judgment for the government affirmed; plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge NSA dragnet collection.
Tcf362fUnited States v. Moalin (2020)
T969389Convictions upheld; program condemned. NSA bulk metadata collection violated FISA and may have violated the Fourth Amendment.
Tcf362fUnited States v. Hasbajrami (2019)
T969389Incidental Section 702 collection upheld, but remanded to decide whether warrantless querying ('backdoor searches') of a US person's data violates...
Tcf362fNaperville Smart Meter Awareness v. City of Naperville (2018)
T969389City won, but data collection held to be a search. Reasonable without a warrant given non-prosecutorial purpose.
Tcf362fUnited States v. Graham (2016)
T969389En banc court (12-3) held no warrant needed for historical CSLI under the third-party doctrine - later abrogated by Carpenter.
Tcf362fACLU v. Clapper (2015)
T969389Plaintiffs won on statutory grounds. NSA bulk metadata program exceeded Section 215 of the Patriot Act.
Tcf362fKlayman v. Obama (2015)
T969389District court injunction vacated and remanded; plaintiffs failed to show standing for the NSA bulk-metadata program.
Tcf362fUnited States v. Katzin (2014)
T969389Government won on remand. En banc court admitted GPS evidence under the good-faith exception.
Tcf362fFlorida v. Riley (1989)
T969389State won (plurality). Helicopter observation of a greenhouse from 400 feet is not a search.
Tcf362fCalifornia v. Ciraolo (1986)
T969389State won. Naked-eye observation from a plane at 1,000 feet is not a search.
Tcf362fUnited States v. Karo (1984)
T969389Mixed; conviction upheld. Monitoring a beeper inside a private residence is a search.
Tcf362fUnited States v. Knotts (1983)
T969389Government won. Tracking a beeper on public roads is not a search.
Tcf362fSmith v. Maryland (1979)
T969389State won. Installing a pen register to record dialed numbers is not a Fourth Amendment search; no warrant required.
Tcf362fUnited States v. Miller (1976)
T969389Government won. Bank records are not protected by the Fourth Amendment.
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