{"slug": "behind-the-blog-with-blogs-like-these-who-needs-a-private-jet", "title": "Behind the Blog: With Blogs Like These, Who Needs a Private Jet", "summary": "The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Chatrie v. United States that the Fourth Amendment protects people's location data, affirming that even short-term surveillance of physical movements constitutes a search. The decision, covered by 404 Media, marks a significant victory for privacy advocates.", "body_md": "*This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss the Supreme Court, the private jet, and AI on the TV. *\n\n**JOSEPH: **I used to cover court cases and judge’s opinions a lot more back at Motherboard. Sometimes it was in cases I broke news in, like that time the [ FBI secretly ran a dark web child abuse website](https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-fbi-hacked-over-8000-computers-in-120-countries-based-on-one-warrant-en-id/?ref=404media.co). Other times it is big decisions that have wider impacts on privacy, surveillance, and government power.\n\nHere’s big news regarding the latter sort of decision. I first saw news of it [ on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s blog](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/victory-supreme-court-says-constitution-protects-peoples-location-data?ref=404media.co). As it says at the start: “You have an expectation of privacy in location data that reveals your movements in the physical world, and even short-term surveillance of these movements is a search subject to the Fourth Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today in Chatrie v. United States.”\n\n## This post is for paid members only\n\n[Subscribe](/membership/)\n\n## Sign up for free access to this post\n\n[Subscribe](/signup/)\n\n[Sign in](/signin/)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/behind-the-blog-with-blogs-like-these-who-needs-a-private-jet", "canonical_source": "https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-with-blogs-like-these-who-needs-a-private-jet/", "published_at": "2026-07-03 10:00:02+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-04 10:24:11.687296+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy"], "entities": ["Supreme Court", "Electronic Frontier Foundation", "404 Media", "Chatrie v. United States"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/behind-the-blog-with-blogs-like-these-who-needs-a-private-jet", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/behind-the-blog-with-blogs-like-these-who-needs-a-private-jet.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/behind-the-blog-with-blogs-like-these-who-needs-a-private-jet.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/behind-the-blog-with-blogs-like-these-who-needs-a-private-jet.jsonld"}}