Posts Tagged ‘Google Will Be Instrumental in Causing Mayhem’

While the rest of society focuses on stalemates on Capitol Hill, rampaging tornadoes, and hurricane-force winds sweeping the Midwest, Google is quietly blowing up society. They will be instrumental causing mayhem around the globe. Google ‘Geofence’ warrants are instrumental in locking up innocent people who were in the 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 crime scene. From this blanket of surveillance law enforcement then try to figure out which phones may be tied to suspects or possible witnesses. Already this type of blanket surveillance warrant, which…

Google Will Be Instrumental in Causing Mayhem Around the Globe, 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 crime scene. From this blanket of surveillance law enforcement then try to figure out which phones may be tied to suspects or possible witnesses. Already this type of blanket surveillance warrant, which works as a kind of ‘guilt by proximity’ at the time a crime occurred, has been used by police to arrest what turned out to be innocent bystanders who…