Situated on the shores of Lake Michigan in northwest Indiana, the LaPorte County Drug Task Force is one of the country’s 33 regional High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA). That means the area is a significant center for illegal drug production, manufacturing, importation or distribution. Sgt. Kyle Shiparski of the Michigan City Police Department is the task force’s current commander. […]
Phone data used to establish timeline, locations; childhood friend of Paul Murdaugh testifies
Towers are separated into 3 sectors; records show tower number and tower sector; and then azimuth and direction of the antenna. From collected data, Wilde was able to create a map of coverage. Another set of records – Verizon RTT records – are an estimation of distance between phone and tower at time of call. All of the data combined shows a cell phone’s location at specific times and the towers and antennas used to transmit calls. […]
Charges: Mother drinking, looking at GPS before Cloquet crash that killed 3-year-old
An Onamia, Minnesota, woman allegedly admitted to having multiple drinks and looking at the GPS on her cellphone before she veered off a Cloquet road and killed her 3-year-old son in a crash Sunday afternoon. […]
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Fake GPS: 5 reasons to spoof your location – from Pokémon Go to dating apps
Don’t want people to know your true location? A fake GPS VPN will let you spoof your location reliably. […]
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Google confirms Android 11 will limit third-party camera apps because of location spying fears
Google is making a change in Android 11 that will force apps that want to take photos or video to use the phone’s built-in camera app. […]
Geofence warrants: How police can use protesters’ phones against them (The searches, sometimes known as reverse location requests, increased fivefold from 2018 to 2019.)
Rather than seeking warrants for a person backed up with probable cause, police have begun relying on geofence warrants that sweep up information on any device that happened to be in the vicinity of a crime. […]