Re:“Reverse location” search warrants identify all cellphone...
by SamReidHughes on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @08:40PM
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Whose civil liberties are hurt by a few blocks of cell phone information after a crime has occurred?
The crime itself is a violation of civil liberties.
Re:“Reverse location” search warrants identify all cellphone...
by martin_a on Thursday February 21, 2019 @04:14AM
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See, your mindset is part of the problem.
I'm not in any way suspicious, just because I have been around the area where a crime has happened. As we know those blocks can be quite large so you will have lots of "suspects" whose only connection to the crime is being around a crime scene.
Then you question all of them and hope that something sticks with one of them. That is unprofessional and will lead to lots of problems once your neighbours get to know that you are suspicious of $crime because you were near $location.
Re:“Reverse location” search warrants identify all cellphone...
by SamReidHughes on Thursday February 21, 2019 @06:03AM
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You question them, ask if they saw anything unusual, ask if they saw anybody matching a suspect's description, spot a known perp, spot somebody staking out the place hours before the crime...
The problem is that those are worth nothing if judges and courts do not understand (or don't want to) the full consequences of carelessly signing those warrants.
In Germany we have some local courts which are "famous" for being very near to the police and will often rule against your personal freedom or accept half-cooked "evidence" from copyright holders (rather their shady lawyers) for purposes of spamigation and alike.
You can't trust in the court system to rule in favor of freedom here.