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The Supreme Court is weighing Chatrie v. United States over geofence warrants, with Google Maps location data helping a 2019 bank robbery case, signaling potential shifts in how private location data is treated under privacy and Fourth Amendment law.

South Korea grants export of high-precision geographic data and fully enables Google Maps, including walking and real-time directions.

A Substack data piece argues Google Maps acts as an algorithmic market maker for London’s restaurants, using ML on 13,000+ eateries to map visibility-driven survival and advocating auditable platform transparency for policy.