Geofence Warrants


  • Readings:
    • Haley Amster and Brett Diehl, Against Geofences, 74 Stanford Law Review 385 (2022)
  • Notes: Not every student note is this ambitious, but it’s a good illustration that you don’t need seniority and a fancy job title to write good scholarship.
  • Questions:
    1. What is a geofence warrant? Why do law enforcement authorities use them?
    2. How do companies like Google store location data?
    3. How do companies search their databases to extract the information demanded by a warrant for a specific account? For a geofence warrant?
    4. Are geofence warrants constitutional under existing doctrine?
    5. Should geofence warrants be allowed as a policy matter?