Law enforcement have been accessing location data stored in massive amounts by tech giants. Google will soon be providing users with the opportunity to store their location data on their devices instead of on its own servers, putting to the end the geofence warrants trend it played a large part in creating. Use of these warrants has recently taken off. This will effectively cease a surveillance practice that has long existed and that has permitted law enforcement such as police to be able to access the company’s massive stores of…
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