You can get dragged into a police investigation by proximity alone — for now

The Supreme Court heard Chatrie v. United States, a case on whether police used an unlawful geofence warrant to identify a 2019 bank robbery suspect through Google location data.

At issue is whether collecting Google Maps Location History from everyone near the crime scene amounted to a Fourth Amendment search.

Lower courts split on the warrant’s legality, and the justices are expected to decide in the coming months.

The ruling could set a major precedent for how police use stored location data from tech platforms nationwide.