Geofence Warrant Sends Bicyclist’s Privacy Over the Handlebars

About a year ago, Zachary McCoy took a bike ride around his neighborhood in Gainesville, Florida. It may have been forgettable to him, but not to history. Because McCoy used an app to track his mileage, the route was forever etched in the Google-verse and attached to his name.

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Police get “unprecedented” data haul from Google with geofence warrants

Investigators are using geofence warrants to get anybody and everybody who’s near a crime at a given time. Continue reading Police get “unprecedented” data haul from Google with geofence warrants