Nevada police deploy Fog Data Science for warrantless real-time cellphone tracking; state signed January contract

Analysis
Nevada's contract is the latest instance of a Carpenter v. United States workaround, purchasing commercially-aggregated mobile-app location data rather than compelling carrier-held CSLI, that has proliferated across at least a dozen states since 2023, keeping acquisitions below the federal oversight threshold that Palantir-scale deployments attract. The January signing became public now, per a single AP report backed by procurement records, almost certainly because elevated cyber-privacy salience from the Iran-war surveillance news cycle pulled it into view; civil-liberties litigation almost certainly follows within 60 days, though Carpenter-style relief is very unlikely to reach commercial-broker data absent new Supreme Court direction. The practical utility may be narrower than the privacy stakes imply. Fog-class systems likely deliver coarser location resolution than the "real-time" framing, which remains company marketing rather than operationally tested capability, suggests.