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Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police - The New York Times
The tech giant records people’s locations worldwide. Now, investigators are using it to find suspects and witnesses near crimes, running the risk of snaring the innocent.
When detectives in a Phoenix suburb arrested a warehouse worker in a murder investigation last December, they credited a new technique with breaking open the case after other leads went cold.
The police told the suspect, Jorge Molina, they had data tracking his phone to the site where a man was shot nine months earlier. They had made the discovery after obtaining a search warrant that required Google to provide information on all devices it recorded near the killing, potentially capturing the whereabouts of anyone in the area.
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This guy got off when they nabbed an ex-boy friend. The moral to this story: if you're going to do the crime, turn your phone off beforehand. Well beforehand. Big Tech is watching you & the cops can tap in when they want.
The tech giant records people’s locations worldwide. Now, investigators are using it to find suspects and witnesses near crimes, running the risk of snaring the innocent.
When detectives in a Phoenix suburb arrested a warehouse worker in a murder investigation last December, they credited a new technique with breaking open the case after other leads went cold.
The police told the suspect, Jorge Molina, they had data tracking his phone to the site where a man was shot nine months earlier. They had made the discovery after obtaining a search warrant that required Google to provide information on all devices it recorded near the killing, potentially capturing the whereabouts of anyone in the area.
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This guy got off when they nabbed an ex-boy friend. The moral to this story: if you're going to do the crime, turn your phone off beforehand. Well beforehand. Big Tech is watching you & the cops can tap in when they want.