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Geofence warrants were first used in 2016. [4] Google reported that it had received 982 such warrants in 2018, 8,396 in 2019, and 11,554 in 2020. [3] A 2021 transparency report showed that 25% of data requests from law enforcement to Google were geo-fence data requests. [5]
Sensorvault is an internal Google database that contains records of users' historical geo-location data. [1]: 1 [2]It has been used by law enforcement to execute a geo-fence warrant and to search for all devices within the vicinity of a crime, (within a geo-fenced area) [1]: 1 [3]: 1 [2] and after looking at those devices' movements and narrowing those devices down to potential suspects or ...
A 2021 transparency report showed that 25% of data requests from law enforcement to Google were geo-fence data requests. [3] Google is the most common recipient of reverse location warrants and the main provider of such data, [4] [5] although companies including Apple, Snapchat, Lyft, and Uber have also received such warrants. [1] [3]
The figures, published Thursday, reveal that Google has received thousands of geofence warrants each quarter since 2018, and at times accounted for about one-quarter of all U.S. warrants that ...
In Covington’s case, a detective with the Van Buren Police Department obtained data from a geofence warrant in 2020. But the agency discounted it because it came from a phone that didn’t ...
Police in Minneapolis obtained a search warrant ordering Google to turn over sets of account data on vandals accused of sparking violence in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd last ...
A geofence is a virtual "perimeter" or "fence" around a given geographic feature. [1] A geofence can be dynamically generated (as in a radius around a point location) or match a predefined set of boundaries (such as school zones or neighborhood boundaries).
Geofence warrants allow police to comb through Google location data in search of suspects in unsolved crimes. Opponents say that violates the Constitution.