Colorado’s Supreme Court this week had the opportunity to hand down a historic judgment on the constitutionality of “reverse keyword search warrants,” a powerful new survei… Read More
Privacy Concerns in Location-based Services: Balancing Convenience and Security
Location-based services (LBS) have become an integral part of our daily lives, providing us with real-time inf… Read More
Police are beginning to turn to robotic taxis, specifically all images captured by cameras, for video evidence to help solve crimes. While it may not be a trend yet, the evidence suggests… Read More
A coalition of law enforcement groups and prosecutors are holding up a California bill with bipartisan support meant to protect people seeking reproductive and gender affirming health care a… Read More
The FBI conducted a halfhearted inquiry, at best.Now we know why.It remains the greatest unsolved mystery related to the events of January 6: Who placed pipe bombs near the headquarters of b… Read More
By Glen Allen, Esq. Recent court filings reveal that Google, by means of its location history function that many Google users (often unknowingly) opt into, has tracked and recorded extensive… Read More
WIRED: A Peek Inside the FBI’s Unprecedented January 6 Geofence Dragnet. “THE FBI’S BIGGEST-EVER investigation included the biggest-ever haul of phones from controversial g… Read More
A Monday speech by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R–Calif.) and proposals President Joe Biden is expected to float in tonight's State of the Union (SOTU) address highlight th… Read More
Geofence warrants allow police to comb through Google location data in search of suspects in unsolved crimes. Opponents say that violates the Constitution Read More
A coalition of tech giants, including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, have pledged support for a New York bill that would ban the use of controversial search warrants that can identify people b… Read More
Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool, at times without search warrants, that gives the… Read More
Since the Supreme Court’s draft decision overturning Roe v. Wade leaked, influencers, activists and privacy advocates have urged users to delete period-tracking apps from their devices… Read More
BeerFartMoron shares a report from Motherboard: For the last five years, driverless car companies have been testing their vehicles on public roads. These vehicles constantly roam neighborhoo… Read More
Senator Ron Wyden and 41 other Democratic lawmakers are urging Google to stop collecting and keeping location data that could be used against people who've had or are seeking abortions. In a… Read More
A federal judge's ruling that geofence warrants violate the Fourth Amendment could slow the use of surveillance tools based on Google location data Read More
With increasing frequency, law enforcement has been using unconstitutional, suspicionless digital dragnet searches in an attempt to identify unknown suspects in criminal cases. Whether these… Read More
In today’s day and age, it will certainly be difficult for people to survive even a day without the internet. Well, this is because the tech has made almost everything in our daily liv… Read More
"Both local police and the FBI are seeking information about individuals who were 'actively instigating violence' in Washington, DC, on January 6," writes Ars Technica.
Then they speculate… Read More
This corner of the Texas Progressives has split off important national news from state and local items this week, and there's plenty of the former to discuss. BLM and policing, peacefulnes… Read More
The Fourth Amendment has been interpreted to mean that law enforcement can’t serve a warrant on tech companies like Google to try and find out what devices were near the scene of a cri… Read More
A New York Time report revealed that Google, which is not only tracking you via the Maps, is potentially turning over your location data to law enforcement from its database called Google Se… Read More
Google, by using the location data in devices, helps identify suspects of crimes in many instances of criminal investigation.
Google keeps tracking your device constantly, even when you disa… Read More