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Fascinating story about how law enforcement is targeting Google’s treasure trove of phone location data to find suspects and witnesses but it also sweeps up the innocent, too. Great reporting by @jenvalentino https://t.co/zNtVBXGLWj
— Daisuke Wakabayashi (@daiwaka) April 13, 2019
Great work by @jenvalentino on how police use Google as a conduit for surveillance and investigations using — among other things — reverse location lookups. https://t.co/SSLyrnZ8Tk
— Zack Whittaker (@zackwhittaker) April 13, 2019
Google’s device location database illustrates the “if you build it, they will come” principle:
— Matt Cagle (@Matt_Cagle) April 13, 2019
Anytime a tech company creates a system that could be used in surveillance, law enforcement inevitably comes knocking. https://t.co/xdJDXOysIL
Location data on millions of Americans is housed in a Google database called Sensorvault. Police have been using it as a dragnet to find devices that were near crime scenes, potentially catching criminals but also ensnaring innocent people. 1/ https://t.co/5JOBCYDoZg
— Jennifer Valentino-DeVries (@jenvalentino) April 13, 2019
google has a database called ‘sensorvault’ with the location history on hundreds of millions of devices. law enforcement is using it as a dragnet to search for suspects and victims. these new warrants offer promise and peril, our new investigations shows. https://t.co/mWJPmWtpPr
— gabriel dance (@gabrieldance) April 13, 2019
“The warrants, which draw on an enormous Google database employees call Sensorvault, turn the business of tracking cellphone users’ locations into a digital dragnet for law enforcement”, with Google providing data on hundreds of users for a single warrant.https://t.co/s9dW4E1iyJ
— Aaron Gluck-Thaler (@agthaler) April 13, 2019
Wild. You may have heard of so-called geofence or 'reverse location' warrants, where cops request location info for all Android phones in a given area (maybe from @iblametom's reporting). Now @jenvalentino shows how that data can end up in wrongful arrests https://t.co/K0kwlJXoA4 pic.twitter.com/ViKS3DQSha
— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) April 13, 2019
It's not about "privacy". It's about power. It's about whether we should be building the infrastructure of a pervasive police state under the control of large corporate actors. I don't care if you opt in. This is a public matter, not your private choice. https://t.co/iNU3OdB6fY
— Steve Randy Waldman (@interfluidity) April 13, 2019
So many fascinating legal questions. Among them..... (thread) https://t.co/mlMFL3jz5z
— Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) April 13, 2019
just what is ‘sensorvault’? is your data on it? how long has it been there? can you get it for yourself? can you delete it? all good questions. here are the answers:https://t.co/XhcqPUOszz
— gabriel dance (@gabrieldance) April 13, 2019
Name Your Orwellian Dragnet Something Less On-The-Nose Creepy Challengehttps://t.co/DdaBcU2Pqq pic.twitter.com/oFBFsm4kt7
— Lindsey Barrett (@LAM_Barrett) April 13, 2019
Google location history feature fuels a massive database & tracking system called #Sensorvault Law enforcement has access and uses the system as well. Learn more here...
— Matteo (@geminiimatt) April 13, 2019
"Google’s Sensorvault Is a Boon for Law Enforcement. This Is How It Works." https://t.co/JZAbIcEPa6
The Feds, Police Are Using Google's Location History Feature to Track Down Suspects https://t.co/ubIgjz3QQk #Cybersecurity #Privacy pic.twitter.com/9F8cNqkITm
— Reg Saddler (@zaibatsu) April 14, 2019
The Feds, Police Are Using Google's Location History Feature to Track Down Suspects https://t.co/rLQiI8ObUf#Privacy #pii #cookies #marketing #eu #gpdr #surveillance #tracking #monitoring #profiling #persona #UserData #Privacy #pii #cookies #marketing #surveillance #tracking pic.twitter.com/4jnd5MsyKv
— Rich Tehrani (@rtehrani) April 14, 2019
Learn how to disrupt Google Maps and Google Location History from tracking your every movement. #privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism https://t.co/kDgMXWxshx
— Troels Oerting (@TroelsOerting) April 14, 2019
Google’s Sensorvault Is a Boon for Law Enforcement. This Is How It Works. - The New York Times https://t.co/8y5aVkYmIu
— Azeem Azhar (@azeem) April 14, 2019
Did u know Google tracks your whereabouts?
— BrahmResnik (@brahmresnik) April 14, 2019
Did u know cops get search warrants for that info even if you're not suspected of doing anything wrong?
Read about Arizona man held for murder b/c of Google info. He did nothing wrong.
Something is wrong here.https://t.co/I3jAL2Tmgd
Investigators have been tapping into the tech giant’s enormous cache of location information in an effort to solve crimes. Here’s what this database is and what it does. https://t.co/FVfsN2DCbk
— ⚡️Kathy E Gill (@kegill) April 13, 2019
This is dystopian https://t.co/vHzi1P12Sv
— Milena Rodban (@MilenaRodban) April 13, 2019
Google's database "Sensorvault" is a trove of detailed location records involving at least hundreds of millions of devices worldwide.Though the new technique can identify suspects near crimes, it runs the risk of sweeping up innocent bystanders.https://t.co/fiIggcjcQL
— tonya (@TonyaMosley) April 14, 2019
Stories about data collection and involuntary loss of privacy - to say nothing of what we freely give to cos like $FB - are surfacing with alarming regularity now.
— Invictus (@TBPInvictus) April 14, 2019
Google’s Sensorvault Is a Boon for Law Enforcement. This Is How It Works. https://t.co/ovHTFKy8u8
Google’s Sensorvault Is a Boon for Law Enforcement. This Is How It Works. https://t.co/VYBbXJtKI6
— _Cryptome_ (@_cryptome_) April 14, 2019
“The Sensorvault database is connected to a Google service called Location History. Location History is not on by default. Google prompts users to enable it when they are setting up certain services (like) traffic alerts in Google Maps...”https://t.co/1NIzpXJsTd
— blmohr (@blmohr) April 14, 2019
Law enforcement taps Google's Sensorvault for location data, report says - The database is for targeting ads and seeing how effective they are. But it's reportedly also been a treasure trove for police https://t.co/cGIhdItGdd
— Tactical Tech (@Info_Activism) April 14, 2019
Google & Android Location History explained: Police usage - 9to5Google
— さらにいくつもの工場長。飯嶋徹 (@toruiijima) April 14, 2019
ちょっと奥さん。googleマップ筒抜けなのか、犯罪解決に役立っておるのか。おのれはTカードよりはマシやろな？泣 https://t.co/5mx0lCxEBW
Searching for phones that were near a crime seems like the perfect law enforcement use of historical location information but this article also perfectly illustrates how that data can steer cops to the wrong person https://t.co/r8PPElSteQ via @NYTimes
— Kashmir Hill (@kashhill) April 13, 2019
Google is letting law enforcement trawl for suspects by asking “who was in this area, during this time?”. Google has the location records of hundreds of millions of people going back years. Seriously disturbing. https://t.co/FkRNVBA6ra
— DHH (@dhh) April 13, 2019
When we think of mobile phone metadata & geolocation, we usually think of the wireless carriers themselves (pen registers, call detail records, tower dumps, etc). But Google has much of the same data, and law enforcement has taken note.
— matt blaze (@mattblaze) April 13, 2019
Some terrific reporting by @jenvalentino . https://t.co/Q0lN2JJLOU
How to turn off Google Sensorvault from tracking you https://t.co/DAPFjl9WBL pic.twitter.com/J8NhSsgSzJ
— CNET (@CNET) April 14, 2019
“But cell phone companies track this data too!”, goes the defense. Except, no. Google’s data is far more precise. Here’s the police cheering about what a “game changer” it is to be able to mine Google’s location records with geofence warrants ? pic.twitter.com/iI2WxveBJR
— DHH (@dhh) April 13, 2019
Google is tracking you (with your permission) and that data, in #Sensorvault is also available to law enforcement with geofence and a warrant. https://t.co/TttOxG7BMD
— Bill Schrier (@billschrier) April 14, 2019