Posted on 04/13/2019 9:30:55 AM PDT by Theoria
When detectives in a Phoenix suburb arrested a warehouse worker in a murder investigation last December, they credited a new technique with breaking open the case after other leads went cold.
The police told the suspect, Jorge Molina, they had data tracking his phone to the site where a man was shot nine months earlier. They had made the discovery after obtaining a search warrant that required Google to provide information on all devices it recorded near the killing, potentially capturing the whereabouts of anyone in the area.
Investigators also had other circumstantial evidence, including security video of someone firing a gun from a white Honda Civic, the same model that Mr. Molina owned, though they could not see the license plate or attacker.
But after he spent nearly a week in jail, the case against Mr. Molina fell apart as investigators learned new information and released him. Last month, the police arrested another man: his mother’s ex-boyfriend, who had sometimes used Mr. Molina’s car.
The warrants, which draw on an enormous Google database employees call Sensorvault, turn the business of tracking cellphone users’ locations into a digital dragnet for law enforcement. In an era of ubiquitous data gathering by tech companies, it is just the latest example of how personal information — where you go, who your friends are, what you read, eat and watch, and when you do it — is being used for purposes many people never expected.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Turnoff the location trkr. Better yet turn off your cell phone and put it in a Mylar bag.
George Orwell (1984) would have been impressed (or scared).
To much work for most. We pay to have the latest whatever the results.
“Turnoff the location trkr.”
The cels are used for location if gps is off.
I never use gps, too much battery use.
I remember crossing a time zone and the time immediately changing on the phone, all based on cel communication.
This article is horribly written.
"You, bro. Let me borrow your car. Can I get your phone too? Oh, and can I borrow your gun? I'll get it all back to you tomorrow."
Would Mylar do it? A lead bag would for sure.
“Turnoff the location trkr.”
doesn’t work. you’d know that if you read the whole article and followed the AP link ...
That has become the norm. A well written article has become a rare and beautiful thing.
Best of all, leave the phone at home. Especially if you’re out doing crimes.
Yes.
It’s odd. I mean, the Slimes is Slimes but once had literate leftists writing their propaganda.
you’ll notice the magpies who complain about poor writing seldom offer up specifics.
Better yet, give your phone to someone else so you are across town when the murder happens.
Thanks, NY Times, for giving potential murderers a heads up.
That’s why I said turn off the phone and may as well yank the battery too. If they want you, they got you. With the cell pings they can approximate. With the trkr they’re pretty close to your location. I looked at mrs, rktman’s google report one time and was not happy. Times and dates and locations and routes taken to get there.
They make mylar bags that have an anti-stat coating which are used to protect integrated circuit chips from static discharge. They also are a shield to RF which is what connects to your phone.. We have our FasTrak transponders used for bridge and highway tolls in anti-stat bags to prevent the State from tracking our movements. They claim its just for getting them a better idea of how traffic flows so they can “plan future improvements,” and they claim the don’t get any specific identity information, but we all know that that is bull$hit!
I hope he sues the butts off the police for false arrest.
The article is mindless.
First it says a man is arrested using a new technique. What technique?
Then it says they tracked Molina’s cellphone. Aha! The new effective technique!
But no -— he spent a week in jail and was then released. Arrested another man instead, who sometimes used Molina’s car. Where’s this new technique and what is it and why did they arrest the unnamed “other man”? On what evidence?
Then off onto the subject of how tech companies can track you and your cell phone etc. etc. and no further mention of the “other man”, just off into techno-babble.
What a piece of crap.
.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.