Whether you're running from Xenomorphs in an '80s Atari 2600 single-player maze or you're Ellen Ripley's daughter Amanda in 2014's acclaimed Alien: Isolation, the Alien franchise has been rocking the ...

Chandra Steele has been writing about tech for the entirety of her journalism career. She loves making tough topics easy to understand. Before joining Android Police, Chandra was senior features ...

Law enforcement officials frequently draw virtual fences around areas of interest and require Google to identify every cellphone in the area using cell location history. Dubbed a “geofence search,” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Police obtained cellphone data for many people who happened to be in this area near the time of a bank robbery. AP Photo/Steve ...

The Supreme Court placed limits on a law enforcement investigative technique that leverages data on cell phone users’ location history to identify people near a crime scene. The justices in a 6-3 ...

The case involved “geofence” searches, which allow law enforcement to find suspects and witnesses by sweeping up location data from cellphones near crime scenes. By Ann E. Marimow and Adam Liptak ...

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the use of a “geofence warrant” to capture location data from cell phones in search of a robbery suspect constituted a search for Fourth Amendment purposes, a ...

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that police conduct a Fourth Amendment search when they obtain a person’s detailed cellphone location history from a tech company, even when the data covers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Geo-fence warrants" allow law enforcement to get broad cell location data, even without suspects in mind. (Vanessa Leroy / NBC ...

In another landmark decision on Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement agencies must first obtain a warrant before sweeping up smartphone location data from third-party tech companies ...