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Posted on 01/11/2024 2:36:48 PM PST by CFW
Civil liberties advocates have long argued that “geofence” search warrants are unconstitutional for their ability to ensnare entirely innocent people who were nearby at the time a crime was committed. But errors in the geofence warrant applications that go before a judge can violate the privacy of vastly more people — in one case almost two miles away.
Attorneys at the ACLU of Northern California found what they called an “alarming error” in a geofence warrant application that “resulted in a warrant stretching nearly two miles across San Francisco.” The error, likely caused by a typo, allowed the requesting law enforcement agency to capture information on anyone who entered the stretch of San Francisco erroneously marked on the search warrant.
“Many private homes were also captured in the massive sweep,” wrote Jake Snow, ACLU staff attorney, in a blog post about the findings.
It’s not known which law enforcement agency requested the nearly two-mile-long geofence warrant, or for how long the warrant was in effect. The attorneys questioned how many other geofence warrant application mistakes had slipped through and resulted in the return of vastly more data in error.
(Excerpt) Read more at techcrunch.com ...
Twitter HQ.
“Twitter HQ.”
Oh wow! I didn’t think of that but you could be right.
They spelled "proof of concept" wrong.
“ geofence warrants filed in San Francisco Criminal Court that were issued over three years between 2018 and mid-2021.”
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Thanks. Well, that takes out the X/Musk connection but it still probably has something to do with Trump and/or his supporters.
Fences don’t work.™
Could’ve also been that event hosting the Chinese Premier... Two mile radius would not be a typo in that case, they’d want all the data on all the people in the area, hotels, restaurants etc.
Oakland: “There is no there there.”
San Francisco: “There is no underwear there.”
“allowing police to determine “where you were and who you were with” during the time that the warrant was in effect.”
And folks still think they are not doing this, or can even do this.
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