Posted on 03/07/2020 8:29:48 AM PST by BenLurkin
Google’s legal investigations support team, writing to let him know that local police had demanded information related to his Google account. The company said it would release the data unless he went to court and tried to block it. He had just seven days.
He had an Android phone, which was linked to his Google account, and, like millions of other Americans, he used an assortment of Google products, including Gmail and YouTube. Now police seemingly wanted access to all of it.
In the notice from Google was a case number. McCoy searched for it on the Gainesville Police Department’s website, and found a one-page investigation report on the burglary of an elderly woman’s home 10 months earlier. The crime had occurred less than a mile from the home that McCoy, who had recently earned an associate degree in computer programming, shared with two others.
Now McCoy was even more panicked and confused. He knew he had nothing to do with the break-in ─ he’d never even been to the victim’s house ─ and didn’t know anyone who might have. And he didn’t have much time to prove it.
McCoy worried that going straight to police would lead to his arrest. So he went to his parents’ home in St. Augustine, where, over dinner, he told them what was happening. They agreed to dip into their savings to pay for a lawyer.
The lawyer, Caleb Kenyon, dug around and learned that the notice had been prompted by a “geofence warrant,” a police surveillance tool that casts a virtual dragnet over crime scenes, sweeping up Google location data — drawn from users’ GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and cellular connections — from everyone nearby.
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looooong cord
Ya don’t have to plug it in fercyrinououd.
We’re not going to fry it, just shield it
OTOH...if you see a dude on a bicycle with a microwave strapped into the handlebar basket...there’s a problem there. Just the fact that a DUDE has a handle bar basket on his bicycle should be the first clue. (Wait...Didn’t obummer have one?)
Community safety tip # 386
It’s extremely frustrating to think that the criminals they helped to put away...
That's what you got from the story? SMFH
“That’s what you got from the story? SMFH”
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Yes, that’s what I got from the story.
What did you get?
And what is SMFH?
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