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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]
Geofence warrants are being increasingly used on protesters, with evidence of the technique being deployed to identify people demonstrating against the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha ...
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 ...
Since geofence warrants require considerable manpower and analysis, they’ve often been reserved for serious crimes, Wandt said. Authorities investigating the Jan. 6 riots used geofence data, he ...
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). The use of a geofence is called geofencing, and one example of use involves a location-aware device of a location-based service (LBS) user entering or exiting a geofence ...
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 ...