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Daily Dashboard | SCOTUS Considers Electronic Tracking a “Search” Related reading: A view from Brussels: EDPS sends signal on data transfers 

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In a piece for SCOTUSblog, Lyle Denniston writes on the ruling in the case of Grady v. North Carolina, which involved a North Carolina monitoring program requiring convicted sex offenders to wear a location-tracking bracelet for the rest of their lives. The court ruled that such electronic tracking is considered a “search” and so is subject to constitutional challenge. It will now be up to lower courts to decide whether such monitoring does in fact violate the Fourth Amendment, but Denniston calls the ruling a gain for the cause of electronic privacy.
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