- Privacy, surveillance, EFF – Homeland Security Newswire
- Homeland Security Newswire
- SURVEILLANCEEFF Files Amicus Briefs in Two Important Geofence Search Warrant Cases … The EFF argues these warrants are unconstitutional “general …
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- to get the parents to do a lie detector test and grant a geofence warrant to retrieve cel
- Change.org
- Please grant San Antonio Police department a geofence warrant to retrieve cell phone information from neighbors parents and close family and …
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- ACLU, general public defenders push again towards Google offering law enforcement your …
- Komputer Home
- Geofence warrants have mainly been issued for Google to hand in excess of info about every cell cellphone or other cellular machine in just a …
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- Court Gives Its Blessing To FBI’s J6 Geofence Warrant, Denies Motion To Suppress
- Techdirt
- Geofence warrants are just part of day-to-day cop business these days. Rather than moving forward with a list of suspects, law enforcement …
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- Law Enforcement Is Using Location Tracking on Mobile Devices to Identify Suspects, But Is It Unconstitutional?
- Wendy Davis, ABA Journal
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- How Your Data Can Get You Convicted
- The Global Valley
- Geofence warrants and similar consumer data use raises serious concerns for privacy rights. As the Court in Chatrie noted, geofence data endangers the …
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- FPP- News – “Geofence warrant” was unconstitutional, says…
- “Geofence warrant” was unconstitutional, says judge. Can the cops use Google location data to find anyone in an area at a given time?
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- ‘A uniquely dangerous tool’: How Google’s data can help states track abortions
- POLITICO
- Inferse.com
- Google doesn’t specify what alleged crimes these warrants concerned, and no known cases have come to light yet of geofence warrants being used to …
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- Do Geofence Warrants Violate the Fourth Amendment?
- Nathaniel Sobel, Lawfare
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- An accused bank robber claims the police broke the law when they used Google location data to track him down. Privacy advocates agree.
- Mack DeGeurin, Insider
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- Defense challenges use of Google location data from everyone in vicinity of Hull Street Road bank robbery
- Frank Green, Richmond Times-Dispatch
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- Alleged bank robber accuses police of illegally using Google location data to catch him.
- Deanna Paul, Washington Post
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- What Is A Geofence Warrant? Bank Robbery Accused Snagged Using Google Maps Location Data.
- Hercules Reyes, International Business Times
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- Police used Google location data to find an accused bank robber. He says that’s illegal.
- Jon Schuppe, NBC News
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- New York lawmakers push 10-point blueprint to crack down on digital surveillance by police
- The Daily Dot
- The bills, introduced in partnership with the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, aim to ban geofence warrants, fake police accounts.
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- ‘Search Everyone First?’ Lawyers Challenge Use of Warrants to Find Google Searchers – Slashdot
- Slashdot
- It’s a geofencing issue as well. Some advocates have expressed concern that keyword search warrants and geofence warrants, in which police turn to …
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- Should Google location data be a tool for cops? – The Register
- The Register
- Updated Evidence collected in a Google geofence dragnet warrant that’s being …
- issue of whether geofence warrants violate the Fourth Amendment, …
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- ACLU, public defenders push back against Google giving police your mobile data
- Computerworld
- Geofence warrants that allow law enforcement to collect location data on mobile device users for criminal probes are under attack by civil rights …
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- Colorado Supreme Court To Hear Challenge Of Reverse Keyword Warrant Served To Google
- Techdirt.
- Geofence warrants get all the hype. But Google also stores other data of interest to law enforcement: Google searches. With these warrants …
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- EFF Files Amicus Briefs in Two Important Geofence Search Warrant Cases
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Unlike traditional warrants for electronic records, a geofence warrant doesn’t start with a particular suspect or even a device or account; instead …
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- ACLU Argues Evidence From Privacy-Invasive Geofence Warrants Should Be Suppressed – YubaNet
- YubaNet
- In the brief, the ACLU asserts that police should not be able to exploit the evidence they acquired from a geofence warrant, a novel and invasive …
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- Google Location Data Searches Invade Privacy, ACLU Says – Law360
- Law360
- The American Civil Liberties Union has told the Fourth Circuit that evidence gathered from so-called geofence warrants should be suppressed, …
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- Google’s Sensorvault Is a Boon for Law Enforcement. This Is How It Works.
- New York Times
- Investigators have been tapping into the tech giant’s enormous cache of location information in an effort to solve crimes. Here’s what this database is and what it does.
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- The feds used ‘geofencing’ to find Jan. 6 rioters. A judge just said it’s legal. – MSNBC News
- MSNBC News
- A federal judge ruled this week that the government’s geofence warrant for Google location data related to Jan. 6 was constitutionally valid.
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- ‘Geofence warrants’ threaten confidentiality of newsgathering process
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
- Background: While investigating a 2019 bank robbery in Midlothian, Virginia, law enforcement officials obtained a “geofence warrant” that helped …
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- Dragnet search warrants are creepy, but this January 6 challenge falls flat
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- The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
- Lawfare Blog
- Avery Schmitz shared a ruling by federal Judge Rudolph Contreras allowing the use of Google Location History data obtained with a “geofence” warrant …
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- The feds used ‘geofencing’ to find Jan. 6 rioters. A judge just said it’s legal. – Ground News
- Ground News
- A federal judge ruled this week that the government’s geofence warrant for Google location data related to Jan. 6 was constitutionally valid….
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- Men imprisoned for murder say police illegally used Google to find their location data
- NBC News
- Geofence warrants allow police to comb through Google location data in search of suspects in unsolved crimes. Opponents say that violates the …
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- Men jailed for murder challenge police use of Google data to find them
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- U.S. Federal Judge Denies Motion to Suppress Jan. 6 Location Data
- Lawfare Blog
- According to the opinion, the geofence warrant has provided the Department of Justice with data on just over 5,700 devices. Geofence warrants allow …
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- Google Keyword-Search Warrants Questioned by Colorado Lawyers
- Yahoo Finance
- So they served a warrant to Google for anyone who had searched for the address …
- Google said geofence warrants had been on the rise since 2018, …
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- Big Brother Surveillance | Free Expression Foundation
- Free Expression Foundation
- The Growing Use of Geofence Warrants Imperils Civil Liberties Written by Glen K. Allen, Esq Recent court filings reveal that Google, …
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- Choose Privacy
- Townhall
- Geofence warrants are routinely used to request dragnet searches of technology company databases. These warrants are broad, requesting all user …
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- Fighting ‘Big Brother’: Anti-surveillance advocates in New York seek to halt creeping …
- amNewYork
- Police in recent years have increasingly utilized “geofence” warrants to …
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- Police Drones and Robots: 2022 in Review
- First Court in California Suppresses Evidence from Overbroad Geofence Warrant. A California trial court has held a geofence warrant issued to the …
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- 2 years since disappearance, Texas AG’s office updates Jason Landry investigation
- Spectrum News
- … and obtained a geofence search warrant near the area where Mr. Landry’s vehicle was found,” said the OAG in a press release.
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- 2 years after Texas State student Jason Landry vanished, father wrestles with mystery
- Austin American-Statesman
- … consulted with experts in digital forensics and accident reconstruction and obtained a geofence warrant, which is a search warrant that allows …
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- Attorney General Updates 2-year-old Cold Case Investigation
- San Angelo LIVE!
- … in digital forensics and accident reconstruction, and obtained a geofence search warrant near the area where Mr. Landry’s vehicle was found.
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- Geofence Warrants, January 6 and the Fourth Amendment
- New York Law Journal
- Law.com
- Geofence search warrants are used by law enforcement to locate and identify …
- Accordingly, a geofence warrant is frequently utilized to identify …
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- Geofence Warrants, January 6 and the Fourth Amendment
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- Texas Attorney General releases update in Jason Landry disappearance | KXAN Austin
- KXAN
- … geofence warrant to search the area near where Landry’s car was found. …
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- KOSA Would Let the Government Control What Young People See Online
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- First Court in California Suppresses Evidence from Overbroad Geofence Warrant. A California trial court has held a geofence warrant issued to the …
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- EFF’s Atlas of Surveillance Database Now Documents 10000+ Police Tech Programs
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- … in California Suppresses Evidence from Overbroad Geofence Warrant …
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- Geofencing, Wrong Pending Intent Is Being Triggered Solutions
- Programming and Tools Blog
- Is geofence warrant legal? Geofence warrants are general warrants—which are prohibited by the Fourth Amendment—because they are devoid of probable …
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- Costs surge as transit ridership remains below prepandemic levels
- Fox 11 Tri Cities Fox 41 Yakima
- What’s a ‘geofence’ warrant? Midlothian bank heist case gets national attention · Veteran breakfast moves location to accommodate more local …
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- Court rules geofence warrant violates Fourth Amendment. Post from ck4829:
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- The Rise of the Police-Advertiser | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Why knock on doors or get a warrant to access a doorbell camera’s footage, …
- in California Suppresses Evidence from Overbroad Geofence Warrant.
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- Sacramento County Resident Joins EFF Lawsuit After Illegal Sharing of His Electricity Usage …
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- They didn’t have a warrant, so Nguyen asserted his rights and said they …
- in California Suppresses Evidence from Overbroad Geofence Warrant.
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- Mailfence – t.co / Twitter
- t.co / Twitter
- First Court in California Suppresses Evidence from Overbroad Geofence Warrant #DataCollection #SurveillanceCamera #Google …
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- Better Regulating Drone Use Requires Communication, Not Surveillance
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- … without having to get a warrant or explain their actions to the public. …
- in California Suppresses Evidence from Overbroad Geofence Warrant.
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- EU Lawmakers Must Reject This Proposal To Scan Private Chats
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- … it’s a serious crime that warrants investigation and prosecution. …
- Court in California Suppresses Evidence from Overbroad Geofence Warrant.
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- Prosecutors to seek adult penalties against Santa Fe teen in homicide case
- Santa Fe Reporter
- … detail the specifics of a “geofence search warrant,” which both police …
- warrant, he turned 16 more than a month after Cordero was killed.
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- Democrats block resolution calling for Biden admin to turn over docs related to Big Tech pressure
- Reclaim The Net
- California court rules against geofence warrant · Read ». October 12, 2022. Big Tech alternatives: VPN Providers · Private search engines
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- UC Berkeley stands by instructor after petition calls for him to be fired over decade-old Facebook post
- Reclaim The Net
- October 12, 2022. California court rules against geofence warrant · Read ». October 12, 2022.
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- Collection: Previous episodes of 8@4 from The Times-Dispatch
- Richmond Times-Dispatch
- The case, which had been watched nationally, tested the constitutionality of a “geofence” warrant that allowed Chesterfield County police to …
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- Geofence Warrants: Investigatory Tool or Constitutional Violation?
- Sites @ Suffolk University
- While geofence warrants permit officers to identify suspects in otherwise dead-end criminal investigations, they also create risk of inadvertently
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- Members of Congress Urge FTC to Investigate Fog Data Science
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- In a state where abortion has been criminalized, Fog’s Reveal tool could potentially allow police, without a warrant, to draw a geofence around a …
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- Office of the Attorney General provides update on the two-year anniversary of the …
- Fox34.com
- … and obtained a geofence search warrant near the area where Mr. Landry’s vehicle was found. Based upon this extensive review and the evidence …
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- Delivery Driver Hit Young Girl With His Truck Before He Killed Her: Warrant
- NewsRadio WFLA – iHeart
- A Look at How the FBI Has Used Geofence Warrants to Pinpoint Jan. 6 Suspects. Dec 5, 2022 • 19 min. WEEKEND EDITION- U.S. Job Openings Fall to …
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- FBI’s 4-Acre Geofence Dragnet at the US Capitol on Jan. 6 Violated Fourth …
- Judicial Watch
- Use of dragnet warrants will likely have at least one major side effect: the chilling of First Amendment-protected speech, according to Tom Fitton …
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- FBI’s 4-Acre Geofence Dragnet at the US Capitol on Jan. 6 Violated Fourth Amendment …
- The Epoch Times
- The FBI’s “alarming” use of general warrants to scoop up the private location data of the devices of …
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- Jan. 6 Geofence Warrants Could Violate Constitutional Rights
- Newsmax.com
- 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol breach, court records indicate the FBI is heavily relying on controversial geofence warrants that legal experts warn could …
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- J6 Suspect Challenges FBI’s Geofence Warrant, Exposing The Massive Scale Of The Fed’s …
- Techdirt.
- Geofence warrants are popular. They’re also controversial. Cops have discovered Google houses plenty of location data.
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- J6 suspect challenges FBI geofencing warrant, exposing extent of Fed data trafficking
- News Post US Zero
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- Geofencing Warrants Are a Threat to Privacy
- Reason Magazine
- A geofencing warrant arguably allows law enforcement to work backward, to say, We think a crime was committed around this place and this time. Let’s …
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- Geofencing Warrants Are a Threat to Privacy
- The Thread Times
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- How Big Tech and Big Brother Swept Up the J6 Protesters
- The Patriot Post
- By using a technique called geofencing. As Wired magazine reported last September: “Geofence warrants are intended to locate anyone in a given …
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- Kevin Pomfret Recognized Among Virginia Business Magazine’s “100 People to Meet in 2023” |…
- Williams Mullen
- Pomfret and his fellow “Innovators” represent industries that include everything from geospatial law to agriculture and are described as “visionary.
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- More on the Government’s January 6 Google GeoFence – emptywheel
- Emptywheel
- For the resulting ~1,500 devices, DOJ obtained a second warrant for Google to obtain the account identifier. As the government explains this Google …
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- FBI tracked Jan. 6 protesters’ location even if phones were in airplane mode: report
- LifeSite
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- Google Gave FBI Location Data for Over 5,000 Devices in Jan. 6 Probe: Filing
- The Epoch Times
- A geofence warrant permits law enforcement to search a database of digital location data to find mobile devices—and by extension, their owners—that …
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- Public records request shows Greensboro Police Department used mobile tracking surveillance tech
- Triad City Beat
- “Geofence warrants, which tap into GPS and other sources to track a …
- “This requires police to obtain a warrant and ask the tech companies for …
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- Jan. 6 investigators used Google location data to identify suspects – TDS.net
- TDS.net
- The FBI used a geofence warrant to receive Google location history data and ultimately received account information for 1500 people.
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- Google Geofence Data Identified 5723 Devices Near January 6th US Capitol Attack
- Blue Springs News Daily
- I wrote about the benefits and pitfalls of geofence warrants here last year and also covered a ruling earlier this year where a geofence warrant was …
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- FBI Tests Limits of Fourth Amendment With Digital Dragnet in January 6 Case
- The New York Sun
- “The warrant forced Google to act as an adjunct detective, …
- The legal questions raised by the increasing use of geofence warrants by law …
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- Evan Greer is on Mastodon on Twitter: “This is crazy and bad. Only a matter of time before …
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- I’m a photojournalist and I ended up a in geofence warrant
- If you have been charged, and/or when you get charged, definitely get a criminal defense attorney.
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- A Look At The FBI’s January 6 Investigation Geofence Warrant: Google Identified 5K+ Devices
- WorldNewsEra
- Mark Harris / Wired: A look at the FBI’s January 6 investigation geofence warrant: Google identified 5K+ devices; dozens appear to have been in …
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- How police work with Google to – The Bridge #6474299 – Investors Hangout
- Cold cases cracked by cellphones: Police are using geofence warrants to solve crimes. …
- Google then is served a warrant to disclose a list of de- …
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- Private data or police evidence? How Google warrants are solving crime
- PressReader
- Detectives nationwide are turning to cutting-edge ‘geofence’ warrants to solve cold cases.
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- Cellphone dragnet used to find bank robbery suspect was unconstitutional, judge says
- A federal judge’s ruling that geofence warrants violate the Fourth Amendment could slow the use of surveillance tools based on Google location data.
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- Utah bill limits how and when police can see your old location data
- KSL TV
- Google says it requires a warrant for both of these steps. …would place limits on which crimes authorities can use geofence warrants to solve.
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