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The Supreme Court hears arguments Monday about a relatively new law enforcement technique that allows police to tap into giant tech-firm databases to find out who was near the scene of a crime and may have been involved. Essentially the question before the high court is whether that technique is ingenious, Orwellian, or both? And, ultimately, is it constitutional?
The technique is called geofencing, and it allows the government to draw a virtual fence around a geographic area where a crime was committed. After that, the government seeks a warrant,