Big Brother Google is watching.....wonderful world we live in, gg. /s
Did I hear someone say “Big Brother”???
One more reason why my phone is in airplane mode when carrying it on my bike.
This is becoming a nightmare.
What the hell is a “geofence warrant”? That sounds so unconstitutional it’s not even funny. The police cannot get a blanket search warrant to search every house in a particular area. How can they get a warrant to search every electronic device in a particular area?
This article is well-written, informative, and goes into greater depth than usual. I wish there were more news articles like this.
One of the differences between an Android phone and an Apple iOS device is that the Android phone collects *your specific information in non-anonymized fashion* as a product for Google to sell to companies or any interested parties. The price delta between an iOS device and a comparable Android phone is so Apple doesn’t *have* to turn its users into products to sell.
This is aside from third party programs on either platform that may track you, specifically talking about fresh-out-of-the-box units that have no extra apps installed. Once you install other apps, it’s on the owner.
Very interesting that McCoy went to a great deal of trouble to stay anonymous online, but did not realize his bike riding app was tracking him everywhere.
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That way, if you ever do need to ah "elude" such casual surveillance you can take appropriate measures. If some interested party comes looking they'll see a long history of you being easily tracked by the usual means. So when those means don't show anything of interest they will move on and have no reason to dig further. If you're making it difficult to be tracked all along then they are going to have to resort to other means. Means that might not be so easy to elude if/when you ever want/need to.
It's not exactly establishing your digital alibi right now. More like making your life appear boring and of no interest. Ha, fortunately for me that is all too easy, my life is boring and of little interest! Heck if anyone bothered to look I don't even speed on the highway or vary from the routine much. Anyone ever looked at their google maps timeline? The other day I was fooling with it and thought it was broken. I clicked on a couple of different days and nothing changed - they were all weekdays and showed my usual commute - there was no variation whatsoever. I thought the website was broken and not responding...LOL
Leave the phone (at home), take the cannolis.
This is a public service message to all.
I grew up in a Southern California beach town. One day my friend and I got pulled into a laundromat and threatened by the owner for stealing sodas from his machine. This sleuth determine it was my friend because of the obvious shoe print markings.... VANS diamonds!!! If you were a kid in the 70s in a beach town and did not have a pair of VANS.... you probably did not exist.
There are a million ways to get caught up in an investigation: VANS shoe print, having same build or gait as perp, grainy video from neighbor camera.... police clear way more people than they charge.
To me this seems a little melodramatic. The police got a warrant, the guy says he rides his bike a lot, they see he did not stop or enter house from GPS. The same technology that traps you can set you free too: If there was ever a charge a judge would throw it out. How did he he enter a home and steal jewelry when he was traveling 10+MPH.
If your family member is a victim and they have no idea who the suspect is, would you expect the police to utilize technology...
To me tracking of words is much more dangerous than location... thought police are ideological and more dangerous than local police.
While privacy and civil liberties advocates have been concerned that geofence warrants violate constitutional protections from unreasonable searches, law enforcement authorities say those worries are overblown
Am I the only one who sees the irony of a government that can't catch millions of illegal aliens with stolen Social Security numbers and massive income tax refunds?
They somehow cannot find millions of illegal aliens sending billions of dollars back to Mexico.
Thisguy challenged the legality of the blanket warrants they used to identify everyone who had passed a spot on the map and the DA panicked because he didn’t want a court precedent that the obviously illegal warrants were in fact illegal. Because using people’s tech to spy on them is very useful. So he said ‘oh we discovered some new stuff and you’re not a suspect, we’re dropping the case’. But the sad fact is that these warrants are very hard to challenge because they are blanketing everyone with nobody knowing they are being investigated.
Orwell didn’t foresee the Party would be able to track people wherever they went.
For-later.
There is a simple solution to this problem: avoid using Google for anything. Google has one purpose. They exist to collect and assemble data about you, your family and neighbors so they can package and sell it to businesses, governments and NGOs and they can manipulate you.
Their research group is open and honest about this. This is especially true if you are conservative. If they cannot successful propagandize you to their position the will seek to isolate and ostracize you so you cannot counter their propaganda efforts with your “dangerous” ideas and radical thinking.
Google is flat out evil and possibly the most dangerously evil company in the world.