It’s not often we see data privacy debated on the benches of the US Supreme Court. However, on 29th June, the Court delivered a landmark ruling on precise location data, establishing that law enforcement’s request for location logs constitutes a Fourth Amendment search.

In a separate case, also at the end of June, the Court ruled that the President has the ability to fire FTC commissioners at will. In an indirect way, this means the Supreme Court also ruled on how data privacy enforcement in the US could be impacted by party swings in the White House.

Taken together, these two cases represent major shifts in how data privacy could be handled from both legal and practical perspectives in the US.