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Geofence warrants to be tested in Virginia bank robbery case

Posted on July 31, 2020 (July 20, 2020) by Nicole Deneka

Authorities are using geofence search warrants that allow law enforcement to gather data from Google on cellphone users and other devices near crime scenes. […]

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Geofence warrants: How police can use protesters’ phones against them (The searches, sometimes known as reverse location requests, increased fivefold from 2018 to 2019.)

Posted on June 22, 2020 (June 10, 2020) by Nicole Deneka

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. […]

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