March 10, 2020 Google data puts innocent man at the scene of a crime The man became a suspect because location data from his Android phone was swept up in a surveillance dragnet called a geofence warrant. Naked Security
December 16, 2019 Police get “unprecedented” data haul from Google with geofence warrants Investigators are using geofence warrants to get anybody and everybody who's near a crime at a given time. Naked Security
April 10, 2015 DEA sued over “suspicionless” mass surveillance of Americans’ phone records Human Rights Watch and EFF are suiing the drug agency, along with the FBI, DOJ and the USA itself, to make sure they torch the bulk surveillance program and purge its mountain of records. Naked Security