The Supreme Court is poised to rule on a critical digital privacy issue : whether geofence warrants, a powerful police tool, violate the Fourth Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches.

This legal challenge stems from cases like Okello Chatrie's, who stole $195,000 from a bank in suburban Richmond , Virginia.

He eluded police until a geofence warrant compelled Google to provide location histories of devices within a virtual perimeter near the crime scene, identifying his phone among a handful of others.

The high court's decision will be the latest attempt to apply a 1791 constitutional provision to technologies unimaginable to its founders.

This legal challenge stems from cases like Okello Chatrie's, who stole $195,000 from a bank in Virginia (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Chatrie's appeal is one of two cases being argued Monday.…