Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police

Re:Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police by zelon88 on Saturday April 13, 2019 @04:06PM (#19655433)

But a Google or Apple smartphone can potentially contain the contact information about third parties who don't own Apple or Google smartphones themselves.

Take a young person with an iPhone. Their 95 year old grandparents might not have a single piece of technology from 1990 onwards but because their grandson has their phone number, address, and birthday in his iPhone those people could potentially be vulnerable to tracking/snooping/violations of privacy.

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Re:Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police by crankylinuxuser on Saturday April 13, 2019 @04:20PM (#19655496)

You'd be surprised how cheap a mask, crowbar, and a rental van is.

Never underestimate this https://xkcd.com/538/ attack.

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Re:Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police by mirimir on Sunday April 14, 2019 @03:24AM (#19658040)

Sometimes you don't even need the wrench.

OK, so the feds were closing in on DPR. They knew that he had everything on his laptop, and that it was full-disk encrypted. One faction wanted to catch him in his room at home, by somehow doing a SWAT from a helicopter.

But cooler heads prevailed. They just tailed him for a few days. So he sits down in the public library, and starts working. Two agents pretend to be a couple having a screaming match. While he's distracted, another agent grabs his laptop.

Game over, and life in prison.

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