THE RECENT EXPANSION of Google’s Timeline feature can provide investigators unprecedented access to users’ location history data, allowing them in many cases to track a person’s every move over the course of years, according to a report recently circulated to law enforcement.
“The personal privacy implications are pretty clear but so are the law enforcement applications,” according to the document, titled “Google Timelines: Location Investigations Involving Android Devices,” which outlines the kind of information investigators can now obtain.
The Timeline allows users to look back at their daily movements on a map; that same information is also potentially of interest to law enforcement. “It is now possible to submit a legal demand to Google for location history greater than six months old,” the report says. “This could revitalize cold cases and potentially help solve active investigations.”
The report was written by a law enforcement trainer, Aaron Edens, and provides detailed guidance on the wealth of historic location information available through Google Timeline and how to request it. A copy of of the document was obtained by The Intercept.
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3 comments:
I guess that if you're not somewhere you shouldn't be and not doing anything you're not supposed to be doing that you'll be okay.
I guess I wouldn't use this service
I see that 4:19 is using the old "If you aren't doing anything wrong then who really needs 'rights'?" line of reasoning.
One the more dumbest approaches to Constitutional law I've ever seen.
Who needs "rights" and "due process"?
Ask any of the HUNDREDS of people released from prison (and Death Row) who were sentenced because of false testimony of police officers, false documents, and fake evidence.
Further, you perfect beings don't get to define what is "wrong".
Missed that point, huh?
Keep cheering.
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