{"id":43985,"date":"2020-06-04T10:57:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T15:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43985"},"modified":"2020-06-04T11:03:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T16:03:27","slug":"cnet-geofence-warrants-how-police-get-data-from-all-devices-in-targeted-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43985","title":{"rendered":"CNET: Geofence warrants: How police get data from all devices in targeted areas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CNET: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/geofence-warrants-how-police-can-use-protesters-phones-against-them\/\">Geofence warrants: How police get data from all devices in targeted areas<\/a> by Alfred Ng (&#8220;The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is also challenging the constitutionality of geofence warrants in a Virginia case. The organization argues that geofence warrants are unconstitutional because of how broad the requests are. &#8216;This is no ordinary warrant. It is a general warrant purporting to authorize a classic dragnet search of every Google user who happened to be near a bank in suburban Richmond during rush hour on a Monday evening,&#8217; the association said in court documents. &#8216;This is the kind of investigatory tactic that the Fourth Amendment was designed to guard against.'&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salon: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nacdl.informz.net\/z\/cjUucD9taT03OTU4NjE3JnA9MSZ1PTkxMzE2NjgyNyZsaT02NTg3NzQ2Ng\/index.html\">Police are using protests as an excuse to unleash new surveillance tech<\/a>\u00a0(&#8220;Experts fear a severe threat to free speech posed by drones and other novel surveillance tools&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNET: Geofence warrants: How police get data from all devices in targeted areas by Alfred Ng (&#8220;The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is also challenging the constitutionality of geofence warrants in a Virginia case. The organization argues that geofence &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43985\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gps-tracking-data","category-tracking-warrant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43987,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43985\/revisions\/43987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}