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haxor@derp.fooMB to Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 2 years ago

Google User Data Is Police's Top Shortcut for Solving Crimes

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Google User Data Is Police's Top Shortcut for Solving Crimes

www.bloomberg.com

haxor@derp.fooMB to Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 2 years ago
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Google User Data Has Become a Favorite Police Shortcut
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Investigators increasingly use warrants to obtain location and search data from Google, even for nonviolent cases—and even for people who had nothing to do with the crime.

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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      https://archive.ph/2023.09.29-051419/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-09-28/google-user-data-is-police-s-top-shortcut-for-solving-crimes

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      I always look into the HN comments, someone has already posted this link there: https://archive.ph/p6jcc

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    Making arrests. Geolocation is the top tool for making arrests.

    Not solving crime, arrests are not the same as solutions. Arresting somebody does not mean they did it.

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