Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search

Re:Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ... by clSTophEjUdRanu on Thursday December 12, 2019 @06:45PM (#21777787)

Google is being swamped with these requests. It now takes months for these requests to be fulfilled.

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Re:Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ... by OrgNet on Thursday December 12, 2019 @07:48PM (#21778157)

most of these digital requests are automatically approved

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Re:Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ... by clSTophEjUdRanu on Friday December 13, 2019 @03:23PM (#21785061)

Source for that?

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Re:Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ... by rarspace01 on Friday December 13, 2019 @02:37AM (#21779807)

do you have any proof for this?

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Re:Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ... by exhilaration on Friday December 13, 2019 @10:06AM (#21782185)

The parent commenter seems to be referring to this article:

Google often doesn’t provide information right away, investigators said. The Google unit handling the requests has struggled to keep up, so it can take weeks or months for a response. In the Arizona investigation, police received data six months after sending the warrant. In a different Minnesota case this fall, it came in four weeks. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/13/us/google-loc...

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Re:Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ... by clSTophEjUdRanu on Friday December 13, 2019 @03:22PM (#21785056)

Friend in law enforcement. They don't know if Google is actually swamped but mentioned that these now take much longer to fulfill than they did in the past. Their assumption is that Google must be swamped.

Also: https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/14/surge-in-police-requests...

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