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AT&T And T-Mobile Are Giving Cops Geofenced Location Data, Even Though It’s Inaccurate
After Google made “geofence” data warrants on its users technically infeasible, feds are still making similar demands on telecoms giants, even if the location data is, by law enforcement’s own admission, often inaccurate.
That’s despite federal agents’ admissions that cell providers’ location data is often inaccurate, leading privacy advocates to claim that the warrants are “certain” to sweep up innocent people in major crime investigations. In those investigations, the government asked telecoms companies to search through records of phones connecting to cell towers near various crime scenes — two murders, a case of racist harassment and a robbery. Brett Max Kaufman, senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, said it’s likely law enforcement will increasingly use such warrants now that Google geofences are no longer possible.
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