Marketplace Tech · Wednesday, July 8, 2026
The recent Supreme Court ruling means tech companies may face an administrative burden of creating warrant requirements for accessing customer data. However, this could also be seen as a benefit, allowing companies to protect customer data more robustly by broadly defining what constitutes 'location data' to ensure police follow warrant procedures.
“So, two things. Um, one is, there will be, uh, sort of an administrative burden, uh, of sorts, and that now the companies themselves will need to create, uh, warrant requirements, uh, just like Google had, in terms of what are the steps you have to take, uh, before the police can get a warrant.”
“Uh, on the other hand, they might think that that's a benefit because they can protect their customers' data in different ways.”
“The open question will be, you know, what Chattra clearly states is that we have a reasonable expectation of privacy in our location data.”