Source: The Record — 22 May 2026
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Lawyer Adam Unikowsky spoke with Recorded Future News about why he believes geofence searches are problematic and why the way the court rules could have a dramatic impact on Americans’ right to privacy.
RingSafe analysis
Chatrie is technically US Fourth-Amendment doctrine, but it touches the same primitive India is wrestling with: when law enforcement can sweep all device-location records inside a polygon-and-time-window. India’s Telegraph Act and IT Act framework permits bulk interception with executive approval, but DPDP Section 17(2)(a) carves out state processing while leaving the consumer’s expectation against Google/Apple location-history sweeps via mutual-legal-assistance requests effectively unaddressed. Indian product teams handling location data (food-delivery, ride-hail, hyperlocal logistics, contact-tracing-style apps) should harden against bulk extraction now: shorten retention windows, encrypt location at rest with per-user keys, and decline over-broad LEA requests in writing rather than reflexively complying. MITRE ATT&CK adjacency: T1430 (Location Tracking) on mobile collection. Treat US precedent here as advance notice of Indian jurisprudence to come.
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