USA Today: Cold cases cracked by cellphones: How police are using geofence warrants to solve crimes

USA Today: Cold cases cracked by cellphones: How police are using geofence warrants to solve crimes by Christopher Damien & Nick Penzenstadler (“Mike Price, litigation director at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Fourth Amendment Center, said innocent bystanders of crimes are inevitably being scooped up in the dragnet. Price says police are ‘hitting the easy button’ on their investigations and allowing Google far too much control over their process as ‘adjunct detectives.’ ‘By design, these warrants seize data from innocent people. Every time the government does one of these searches, they’re searching everyone’s account that’s enabled,’ Price said. ‘It’s not Constitutional for any use. These are general warrants and the very thing the Fourth Amendment was designed to prevent.'”)

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