{"id":53123,"date":"2022-09-09T11:14:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T16:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53123"},"modified":"2022-09-09T11:14:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T16:14:58","slug":"usa-today-cold-cases-cracked-by-cellphones-how-police-are-using-geofence-warrants-to-solve-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53123","title":{"rendered":"USA Today: Cold cases cracked by cellphones: How police are using geofence warrants to solve crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>USA Today: <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/cold-cases-cracked-cellphones-police-090117071.html\">Cold cases cracked by cellphones: How police are using geofence warrants to solve crimes<\/a> by Christopher Damien &amp; Nick Penzenstadler (&#8220;Mike Price, litigation director at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyer\u2019s Fourth Amendment Center, said innocent bystanders of crimes are inevitably being scooped up in the dragnet. Price says police are &#8216;hitting the easy button&#8217; on their investigations and allowing Google far too much control over their process as &#8216;adjunct detectives.&#8217; &#8216;By design, these warrants seize data from innocent people. Every time the government does one of these searches, they\u2019re searching everyone\u2019s account that\u2019s enabled,&#8217; Price said. &#8216;It\u2019s not Constitutional for any use. These are general warrants and the very thing the Fourth Amendment was designed to prevent.'&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today: Cold cases cracked by cellphones: How police are using geofence warrants to solve crimes by Christopher Damien &amp; Nick Penzenstadler (&#8220;Mike Price, litigation director at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyer\u2019s Fourth Amendment Center, said innocent bystanders &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53123\">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":[105,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-warrant","category-geofence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53123","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=53123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53124,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53123\/revisions\/53124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}