Posts Tagged ‘geofence’

Secretive Geofence Surveillance Software Being Snapped Up By Law Enforcement

Fog Reveal hoovers up cell phone location data by tracking ad ids and pings from local censors, and then sells it to law enforcement. It doesn’t require a search warrant but can display your pattern of life within minutes. Its use is seldom mentioned in court cases; one spokesman said, “The success lies in the […]

Google ‘Geofence’ Warrants Keep Locking Up Innocent People Who Were In Proximity Of A Crime Scene

Months ago we detailed an incredibly scary and Orwellian tool in the local police arsenal known as a “geofence warrant”. As described at the time it’s essentially a virtual dragnet over crime scenes where police request to sweep up Google location data drawn from users’ GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and cellular connections from everyone who happened to be near a […]

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