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.
(Excerpt) Read more at techcrunch.com ...
“... 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/
I like the way you think.
Do you use a vpn? That is why google thinks I’m in a different country.
And your smart watches. And your car. The GPS tracks your location.
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.
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
Google maps - cache the map, go to airplane mode, maps will use the phones gps unit without phoning home to big brother.
Google Support --> Manage Your Location History
Location History is a Google Account–level setting that saves where you go with every mobile device where:
You can also sanitize your phone of Google and Facebook monitoring software.
this will only add to the suspicion that you are guilty.
Perhaps so.
But I find myself not giving much of a damn.
“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
Nice little extortion racket big tech and big government has going.
Makes the mob look like amateurs.
5.56mm
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.
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.
DuckDuckGo!
Google can go the way of lycos, askjeeves, etc
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.
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...
Thanks for the info.
They are the enemy of privacy in every conceivable way, and your use of their platform for anything constitutes an willful abrogation of yours.
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