Credit: Joe Maring / Android AuthorityTL;DRThe US Supreme Court has ruled that Fourth Amendment protections extend to data, such as location history, that people hand over to companies like Google and Apple.The result means that police need a warrant to obtain that data.The 6-3 decision was over a case involving a 2019 bank robbery in which police used a geofence warrant to locate all devices near the crime scene.Just because you agreed to let Google or Apple access your phone data, like location history, does that mean the government should be able to access it as well? According to a new ruling, it seems the US Supreme Court doesn’t think so. The court has found that the data your mobile devices track should remain private to you, regardless of whether you share it with tech companies.Today, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Chatrie v. United States, holding that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy from the government. Specifically, the decision extends Fourth Amendment protections to data that people hand over to tech companies. In short, the decision means that police will need a warrant to obtain the data you share with these companies.