The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history

Re:The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your locat... by dawnerd on Thursday September 16, 2021 @02:50PM (#28555633)

I know I cant avoid cell companies, but I can at least limit how much Google knows (or any other company that requires always on location). The problem is though, the data I can get from my location history from Google is really useful for me so it's been a privacy trade off I've taken.

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Re:The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your locat... by lotsofpulp on Thursday September 16, 2021 @02:55PM (#28555694)

I keep Google location history on so I can have evidence of where I was.

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Re:The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your locat... by SamBam on Thursday September 16, 2021 @09:36PM (#28560135)

From the article, which talks about the police being able to get a warrant on you based on nothing more than you being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and from the fact that the police convict innocent people based on flimsy evidence all the time, I'd say at this point you're much more likely to get falsely convicted based on your location than exonerated.

Has anyone ever been exonerated based on their Google location history?

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Re:The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your locat... by eurasiantiger on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:15PM (#28557731)

As if that was admissible. Easily faked by leaving your device at home.

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Re:The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your locat... by 0x6862 on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:58PM (#28558241)

Paired with other metadata (which can also be faked) I’d bet a jury would find the data quite convincing

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