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Google says geofence warrants make up one-quarter of all US demands
techcrunch.com ^ | August 19, 2021 | Zack Whittaker

Posted on 08/21/2021 11:53:56 AM PDT by TChad

Geofence warrants are also known as “reverse-location” warrants, since they seek to identify people of interest who were in the near vicinity at the time a crime was committed. Police do this by asking a court to order Google, which stores vast amounts of location data to drive its advertising business, to turn over details of who was in a geographic area, such as a radius of a few hundred feet at a certain point in time, to help identify potential suspects.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: bigtech; geofence; google; police; privacy; spying; surveillance
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To: nascarnation

“... most state laws say it is illegal to alter, block or obscure a license plate in any way, whether due to a large frame or a tinted cover. Anything that prevents a license plate from being read by a person, or in some states, an electronic device, violates the law.”

https://thenewswheel.com/covers-that-obscure-license-plates-are-against-the-law/


21 posted on 08/21/2021 12:35:39 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Bearshouse

I like the way you think.


22 posted on 08/21/2021 12:36:49 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: Tolk2112

Do you use a vpn? That is why google thinks I’m in a different country.


23 posted on 08/21/2021 12:38:26 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: WMarshal
Word do the wise, I plan to do a dirty leave your phones at home.

And your smart watches. And your car. The GPS tracks your location.

24 posted on 08/21/2021 12:41:14 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: gitmo

a VPN does not hide any identifiers, not even your location. It can mask your IP and you can use a foreign server, but your actual GPS and WiFi data would still give away your location.

https://www.quora.com/If-I-use-a-VPN-on-my-iPhone-will-it-hide-my-device-information-I-understand-that-it-hides-my-location-but-will-it-be-known-that-an-iPhone-was-used#:~:text=No%2C%20a%20VPN%20does%20not,still%20give%20away%20your%20location.


25 posted on 08/21/2021 12:41:20 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: gitmo

I don’t have a VPN.
I think I might just be far enough into the woods that my phone has a hard time finding towers.
It bounces me back and forth from Alabama and the Carolinas


27 posted on 08/21/2021 12:42:47 PM PDT by Tolk2112
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To: TChad

Google maps - cache the map, go to airplane mode, maps will use the phones gps unit without phoning home to big brother.


28 posted on 08/21/2021 12:44:39 PM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: TChad
IMPORTANT...

Google Support --> Manage Your Location History

Location History is a Google Account–level setting that saves where you go with every mobile device where:


CNET --> Google always knows where you are. Here's how to turn that off
How long do we think it will be before The Powers That Be 1) make it impossible to turn off Google location tracking, then 2) they will mandate it be turned ON in all new phones sold. Or Congress passes a law making it mandatory? Or the President issues a national security directive manding it be turned on?
29 posted on 08/21/2021 12:45:37 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?”)
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To: TChad

You can also sanitize your phone of Google and Facebook monitoring software.


30 posted on 08/21/2021 12:46:21 PM PDT by MercyFlush (The First Amendment Doesn't Care About Your Feelings)
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To: algore

this will only add to the suspicion that you are guilty.

Perhaps so.
But I find myself not giving much of a damn.


31 posted on 08/21/2021 12:48:24 PM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

“I’m more than little surprised to learn that law enforcement agencies don’t just set up and run their own reverse geo-coding services ...”

That could be illegal.
/s


32 posted on 08/21/2021 12:52:25 PM PDT by A strike (Barr to Gitmo, Roberts to Florence supermax, HerrDoktor FauxiGates to TerreHaute)
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To: TChad
So the NSA monitors all phone and data transmission, and Google gives the location data to the FBI.

Nice little extortion racket big tech and big government has going.

Makes the mob look like amateurs.

5.56mm

33 posted on 08/21/2021 12:53:41 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
How long do we think it will be before The Powers That Be 1) make it impossible to turn off Google location tracking,

I thought that had already happened, but I don't keep up with cell phone tech. My ancient smartphone has a setting that allows me to turn off location services, so I do. That doesn't stop collection of my cell tower accesses, but maybe it does some good.

34 posted on 08/21/2021 1:18:56 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Why would they bother developing that expensive software which would have to proliferate when Google does it already?

The real problem we have right now is companies using identity capture technology for all kinds of ways to make profit and sell out Americans.


35 posted on 08/21/2021 1:26:41 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: TChad

DuckDuckGo!

Google can go the way of lycos, askjeeves, etc


36 posted on 08/21/2021 1:34:59 PM PDT by thegagline
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To: TChad

That’s a good point and one I had forgotten — the cell towers can still triangulate you very well (that’s how they get good geo-coordinates for you if you call 911 on your mobile phone) and that data is available to the police via a court order. I don’t know how the data the get from Google is better than that.


37 posted on 08/21/2021 1:50:25 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?”)
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To: TChad

Tightly wrap your phone in aluminum foil when you are not using it. It denies your phone the ability to geolocate, and also minimizes the government’s ability to turn on the camera and microphone of your cell phone, without your knowledge. Even if your phone is powered down, the government has created the ability to use your camera and microphone, while your phone appears to be turned off. Also, if you think you can drain your battery, and deny them this capability, it should be understood that when your phone tells you it’s out of juice, there is a “reserve” capacity of your battery, reserved for the purpose of using it as a surveillance device. Just sayin...


38 posted on 08/21/2021 2:01:23 PM PDT by krogers58
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To: krogers58

Thanks for the info.


39 posted on 08/21/2021 2:08:25 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: TChad

Stop using Google!

They are the enemy of privacy in every conceivable way, and your use of their platform for anything constitutes an willful abrogation of yours.

40 posted on 08/21/2021 2:08:52 PM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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