As per a news story by The Sun, the FBI or the Federal Bureau of Investigation served the search engine tech giant, Google, which owns and operates the biggest smartphone operating system, Android, a ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A detective investigating an armed bank robbery in Midlothian turned to Google when other leads in the case didn’t work out, obtaining a search warrant for the location history ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that geofence warrants, which allow police to collect data on individuals’ whereabouts, violate the Fourth Amendment. TechCrunch reported the ...

McBrien agreed cell phone companies and other network services can track users, but he has yet to see a geofence warrant issued for any company other than Google because it simply has to most data to ...

As a breaking news reporter, I've spent hours sitting on hard courtroom benches listening to testimony from detectives, federal agents and others about how authorities solve crimes. Among the various ...

The FBI’s biggest-ever investigation included the biggest-ever haul of phones from controversial geofence warrants, court records show. A filing in the case of one of the January 6 suspects, David ...

Jane Bambauer, a leading information law scholar (both on the First Amendment and the Fourth Amendment side), wrote up these thoughts on the recent geofencing case, on which Orin had also written; I'm ...

On August 23rd, 2020, police shot Jacob Blake four times in the back in Kenosha, Wisconsin — and within hours, the streets were full of protestors. The National Guard was activated the following ...

For the first time, Google has published the number of geofence warrants it’s historically received from U.S. authorities, providing a rare glimpse into how frequently these controversial warrants are ...

Federal investigators served Google with a geofence warrant as part of an investigation into an attempted arson against a police union headquarters in Seattle during protests of the shooting of Jacob ...