Google received its first geofence warrant to comb users’ locations for police in 2016. It received 9,000 in 2019.
case offered unusual and important insights into geofence technology. It also highlighted new privacy concerns stemming from the massive collection of data that tech companies compile from our digital lives. Combine that massive data set with the government’s police powers, and the implications for privacy and security are striking.
Users have to opt in to Location History. Once they do, though, Google will continue to collect Location History data even if the user later deletes the app that prompted the opt-in. Once a user enables Location History, Google tracks the user’s location across every app and from every device associated with that user.
Sometimes the confidence interval circle is as little as 3 meters across. Sometimes it’s hundreds of meters. Because the location tech has this functional limitation, some users’ devices that seem to fallit. That’s because the physical circle described in the geofence warrant may overlap with the confidence interval circles identifying the location of users’ devices.Here’s a rendering of how user data overlapped with the red circle of the geofence in thecase.
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