NBC News: Police used Google location data to find an accused bank robber. He says that’s illegal.

NBC News: Police used Google location data to find an accused bank robber. He says that’s illegal. By Jon Schuppe (“The demand for Google data, known as a geofence warrant, is a way for law enforcement authorities to take advantage of the company’s collection of massive amounts of information on its customers. The orders allow police to track just about anyone using an Android device or a company app — such as Google maps or Gmail — to a particular place over a particular time period. As more police use such warrants, the method is raising concerns among privacy advocates, who say the government is gathering information from people in violation of the Fourth Amendment, which guards against unreasonable searches.

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