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- Reverse Location Searches: Geofence Warrants & Location Data Brokers
- Geofence Warrants
- Aggregated app-generated Location Data
- Location Data Has Been Used to Target First Amendment-Protected Activity
- Efforts to Push Back on Reverse Location Searches
Reverse location searches allow the police to identify every device in a given geographic area during a specific period of time in the past as well as to track people’s paths of travel. Geographic areas can include city blocks full of people unconnected to the crime, including those living in private residencesand driving on busy streets. Unlike or...
The first type of search, a “geofence warrant,” is primarily directed at Google. Through these warrants, police are able to access precise location data on the vast majority of Android device users and other Google account holders (including iPhone users). This data comes from wifi connections, GPS and Bluetooth signals, and cellular networks and a...
In 2021, we also learned more about searches of aggregated app-generated location data. With this second type of reverse location search, the government is able to access location data generated by many of the applications on users’ phones. This data is purportedly deidentified and then aggregated and sold to various shady and secretive data broker...
There is more and more evidence that data available through reverse location searches can be used to track protestors, invade people’s privacy, and falsely associatepeople with criminal activity. In 2021, we saw several examplesof law enforcement trolling Google location data to identify people in mass gatherings, including many who were likely eng...
In 2021, we also saw efforts to push back on the increasingly indiscriminate use of these search techniques. We called on Googleto both fight geofence warrants and to be much more transparent about the warrants it’s receiving, as did the Surveillance Technology Oversight Projectand a coalition of 60 other organizations. Both Google and Apple pushed...
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