That link is a story from 2020 about a geofence warrant. It appears that around the end of last year, Google changed their system to store location on the device (with optional encrypted backups), so warrants like that won't work anymore. More info:
It might not be completely over. There might be other other location stored somewhere. But, it's important to celebrate the win when something like this happens.
If that chance actually goes on to protect people, I'll agree that it's a good thing! We'll know when time goes on and nobody else ends up being arrested because the police when fishing using location data I guess.
Is This the End of Geofence Warrants? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/end-geofence-warrants
It might not be completely over. There might be other other location stored somewhere. But, it's important to celebrate the win when something like this happens.