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This is happening already - anyone who use Google map has their location data collected for the past 10 years with default setting. Police can issue geofenci
by srcmap 7y ago
This is happening already - anyone who use Google map has their location data collected for the past 10 years with default setting. Police can issue geofencing warrant against the location/time and Google will share that data.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/18/google_geofence_warrant/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/18/google_geofence_war...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/13/us/google-location-tracking-police.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/13/us/google-loc...
- redis_mlc 7y agoThanks for the links. I read the first one in detail, and it's not Google Maps, but worse, it's cell phone location data for all phones, for up to a decade, probably more, in a database called SensorVault. So it can be used as a global surveillance database. This is not surprising, since data companies always have a database like this, but we should have privacy laws in place to limit retention time and access. Source: DBA.