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Man caught in geo-fencing dragnet became burglary suspect after riding bike near home that was burglarized - he used fitness-tracking app to record rides; app tracked location using Android phone. Cops served Google w/warrant for anyone in vicinity of home https://t.co/KF47eri6sz
— Kim Zetter (@KimZetter) March 7, 2020
Well this is terrifying:
— honor sachs (@drhonor) March 7, 2020
“It was a nightmare scenario,” McCoy recalled. “I was using an app to see how many miles I rode my bike and now it was putting me at the scene of the crime. And I was the lead suspect.” https://t.co/b2uBXvD0z9
Remind me to turn off Strava when I’m tagging nyc infrastructure https://t.co/agYVUIyJOp
— Aaron Stewart-Ahn (@somebadideas) March 7, 2020
“They also scoop up data from people who have nothing to do with the crime, often without their knowing ─ which Google itself has described as “a significant incursion on privacy.”
— IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) March 7, 2020
This is beyond creepy..? https://t.co/5KK5B4iVJE
Skin-crawling look into what it's like to anxiously be forced to defend your innocence because a geofence warrant linked your use of exercise-tracking data (RunKeeper & Google) to an area where a crime occurred.
— Evan Selinger (@EvanSelinger) March 7, 2020
More amazing reporting from @jonschuppe. https://t.co/QnNLineUyS
A scary invasion of privacy- over a simple burglary case... https://t.co/mb1TwRAyan
— Terry Boring (@terry_exciting) March 8, 2020
Big brother is always aware?? ..When you think your location devices on your phones are helping you , sadly you were wrong ..#SaturdayThoughts #BigBrother https://t.co/ZogPQyNddP
— Mobycat6969 (@mobycat6969) March 7, 2020
A yet another dragnet arrangement originally designed to make it easy, fast and cheap for the LE to conduct investigations.
— Erka Koivunen (@ekoivune) March 8, 2020
Theory: You’ve done nothing wrong? -> Nothing to fear.
Practice: An innocent bystander ends up spending serious money to clear one’s name of suspicions. https://t.co/CIFAJFV7Rv
Guy uses RunKeeper to track his workouts.
— One Ring (doorbell) to surveil them all... (@hypervisible) March 7, 2020
He passes 1 house often.
RunKeeper sends info to Google.
House gets burglarized.
?issue geofence warrant.
Google tells guy unless he blocks warrant, in 7 days they will give all his info to ?.
???https://t.co/oa2LmY9QEh
He used an app to track his exercise.
— David Beard (@dabeard) March 7, 2020
The app fed data to Google.
Google turned over data to police.
Who tried to frame him for a crime.
He was lucky.
His parents gave him money for a lawyer.
Police moved on.
Who else does Google have?https://t.co/KpifEOQEJ3 @NBCNews
Man caught in geo-fencing dragnet became burglary suspect after riding bike near home that was burglarized - he used fitness-tracking app to record rides; app tracked location using Android phone. Cops served Google w/warrant for anyone in vicinity of home https://t.co/KF47eri6sz
— Kim Zetter (@KimZetter) March 7, 2020
One for the “No need to worry about privacy and surveillance because if you’ve done nothing wrong” crowd. https://t.co/tedPUe5XvM
— Stephen (writes with Chey) Cobb (@zcobb) March 8, 2020
For all those folks that say "I don't care if they have my data, I have nothing to hide", read this. https://t.co/Hl98g9KRSX
— Hadi Hariri (@hhariri) March 8, 2020
#Google is the death of privacy in America. https://t.co/qlPcpPvf0r
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) March 7, 2020
Read about the rise of @google-assisted "geofence warrants" and get pissed. HT @DanBuk4 https://t.co/CK99Lx07my
— Nick Gillespie (@nickgillespie) March 8, 2020
This is likely to happen more often. Police casting a "geofence warrant", sweeping up all data around the scene of a crime. Thus creating suspicion against innocent people who have to spend $1000s to proof their innocence.https://t.co/2HECh9TgKA
— felix stalder (@stalfel) March 8, 2020
Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect.https://t.co/u8tulHY6Nh
— Culttture (@culttture) March 8, 2020
Worth reading. Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect. https://t.co/5yvzC5Uf1q
— Skeptical Scalpel (@Skepticscalpel) March 8, 2020
Here’s a story about a Google geofence warrants - orders that scoop up location data of everyone near a crime scene. This one led Gainesville police to a man who had nothing to do with a burglary other than riding his bike past the house. https://t.co/qO0oGSfkK5 via @nbcnews
— Jon Schuppe (@jonschuppe) March 7, 2020
There were 105,000 hit and run crashes in Florida last year. Unclear if any one of them was solved by asking Google for GPS data of drivers who were in the area.https://t.co/eicmR1A8D3
— Motorisms ? (@motorisms) March 8, 2020
Here’s a fun weekend read by @jonschuppe about how your phone is trying to send you to prison. https://t.co/ZiuvwfbenL
— Mike Hixenbaugh (@Mike_Hixenbaugh) March 7, 2020
Skin-crawling look into what it's like to anxiously be forced to defend your innocence because a geofence warrant linked your use of exercise-tracking data (RunKeeper & Google) to an area where a crime occurred.
— Evan Selinger (@EvanSelinger) March 7, 2020
More amazing reporting from @jonschuppe. https://t.co/QnNLineUyS
Read this #privacy related story here.... https://t.co/tZbUbWTjmR | #infosec #freedom
— Limor Kessem, CISO (@iCyberFighter) March 8, 2020
“I was using an app to see how many miles I rode my bike and now it was putting me at the scene of the crime. And I was the lead suspect.”
— Matt Odell (@matt_odell) March 8, 2020
“I didn’t realize that by having location services on that Google was also keeping a log of where I was going” https://t.co/oSSRqeqhSS
Interesting new advert for iPhone coming surprisingly out of Mountain View instead of Cupertino https://t.co/seISoA2HPB
— Barry Ritholtz (@ritholtz) March 7, 2020
Google location data turned a random biker into a burglary suspect https://t.co/j30czdS69G
— The Verge (@verge) March 7, 2020
This is insane:
— ALX ?? (@alx) March 7, 2020
Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect. https://t.co/WfGigw6EGq
Investigation details how a man became a burglary suspect when police used a “geofence warrant” to gather Google location data from devices near a crime scene https://t.co/XlTA6EPT1B via @NBCNews
— Liberation Technology (@Liberationtech) March 9, 2020
Chilling story https://t.co/CFDJQEiETw
— Varun Krishnan (@varunkrish) March 8, 2020
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" #privacy https://t.co/L5OjnwEsLw
— ThatCrypto (@ThatCryptoTO) March 7, 2020
Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect. https://t.co/AUNekCXdz2
— Ministry of Privacy (@ministryprivacy) March 8, 2020
Geofence warrants sound insanely dystopian.https://t.co/AA4ENLk7d1
— Charlotte Jee (@charlottejee) March 9, 2020
big brother is here and worse than the one in 1984https://t.co/Mp0xcTQyCr
— Luke Rudkowski (@Lukewearechange) March 7, 2020