Should Google location data be a tool for cops?
While we don't know how many geofence warrants Google services on a regular basis, we do know that it received more thanIn 2019, someone robbed a Virginia credit union at gunpoint and left with $195,000 from a bank safe. To help find the suspect, police served Google with a geofence warrant [] requesting location data for every Google device user within 150 meters of the bank an hour before and after the robbery.
The cops eventually returned to Google and asked for specific information about three users including names, subscriber information, email addresses, electronic devices, and phone numbers associated with the accounts. A geofence in an urban area that has a diameter longer than three football fields will sweep in an overwhelming number of people and devices for which there is no probable cause to searchwith armed robbery.
In March, a federal judge ruled that the geofence warrant was too broad, and therefore violated Chatrie's constitutional protections [
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