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Tracking Phones: Google as a Dragnet for the Police

Loaded on Sept. 16, 2019 by Bill Barton published in Criminal Legal News October, 2019, page 17
Filed under: Police Searches, Telephones, Telephone Monitoring, Police, Police State-Surveillance. Location: United States of America.

by Bill Barton

The Google Sensorvault database has been used by law enforcement agencies on multiple occasions to obtain what are being called “geofence” warrants, which specify an area and period of time and require Google to provide information regarding the devices that were there.

According to nytimes.com, the warrant ...

 

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