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Red Alert for Android Users: Google Gives Police Your Identification If Police Say You Were Near a Crime
Citizen Watch Report ^ | Chris Black

Posted on 10/04/2023 2:42:11 AM PDT by davikkm

Back in the day, cops had to put physical “bugs” (recording devices) in criminals’ houses and cars.

Now, they just use your phone, especially if you’re on Android.

No worries, even if you’re using Apple, you probably have apps installed that can be used to listen to you and track you.

At one point, in one of the WikiLeaks dumps, it was revealed that cops were using Angry Birds to invade people’s privacy.

So, there’s no privacy, regardless of what you’re using.

With all things considered, check this out: whenever you read “no suspects were arrested,” what they are telling you is “the police decided they did not want to arrest the perpetrator.”

The Guardian:

See also LA County's no cash bail policy takes effect Sunday --- Now, when someone commits a crime, they will receive a citation and be let go right where it happened. In January 2020, Florida resident Zachary McCoy received a concerning email from Google: local authorities were asking the company for his personal information and he had just seven days to stop them from handing it over.

Police were investigating a burglary, McCoy later found out, and had issued Google what’s called a geofence warrant. The court-ordered warrant requested the company look for and hand over information on all the devices that were within the vicinity of the broken-into home at the time of the alleged crime. McCoy was on one of his regular bike rides around the neighbourhood at the time and the data Google handed over to police placed him near the scene of the burglary.

Not very many people know or care about this policy of Apple.

Here’s the part from The Guardian about iPhone:

Now, Apple has taken steps to publish its own numbers, revealing that in the first half of 2022 the company fielded a total of 13 geofence warrants and complied with none. The difference? According to Apple’s transparency report, the company doesn’t have any data to provide in response. An Apple spokesperson did not go into detail about how the company avoids collecting or storing time-stamped location data in such a way that prevents compliance with geofence warrants, but reiterated the company’s privacy principles which includes data minimization and giving users control of their data.

While Apple’s most recent record on responding to government requests for data also includes complying with 90% of US government requests for account information, experts say the newly published numbers on geofence warrants highlight a clear lesson: “If you don’t collect [the data] you can’t give it to the government or have it breached by hackers,” Andrew Crocker, the Surveillance Litigation Director at EFF, said to the Guardian.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Government
KEYWORDS: android; apple; geofence; geofencing; google; iphone
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To: davikkm

I always take my phone to church and leave it there while I am out committing crimes etc. Then when I am finished, I go back to the church get my phone, pray to God and go home.


41 posted on 10/04/2023 7:46:48 AM PDT by Dandy (Drain the swamp baby!!!)
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To: EEGator

If you have a burner phone it still tracks everything and they can figure out it is you by the calls you make and where you hang out. Like at home.


42 posted on 10/04/2023 7:50:25 AM PDT by Dandy (Drain the swamp baby!!!)
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To: MayflowerMadam

faraday bag


43 posted on 10/04/2023 7:51:44 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Dandy

That’s why you keep it off and in a Faraday bag.

I don’t have either as I’m not doing anything crazy.


44 posted on 10/04/2023 8:13:47 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: moovova

Don’t make personal attacks.

Look at that blog and look at the thread poster’s history, and notice that asking him to post another of his blog’s articles is a favor to him.


45 posted on 10/04/2023 10:31:59 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

46 posted on 10/04/2023 11:34:41 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: moovova

Weird, you should get your emotions under control, there is nothing for you to be weeping and attacking people over, calm down.


47 posted on 10/04/2023 11:46:20 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: suthener
with the number of surveillance cameras these days I don’t know how anybody gets away with anything.

Maybe the surveillance cameras aren't as effective as their masters would have you believe.

Maybe the masters of the surveillance cameras don't want to solve certain crimes, or prosecute certain criminals.

No-one here is exactly as he seems.

48 posted on 10/04/2023 11:51:25 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ansel12

Don’t make personal attacks.


49 posted on 10/04/2023 12:25:16 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: moovova

There is something deeply wrong with you.


50 posted on 10/04/2023 1:08:07 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: NorthMountain

“Maybe the masters of the surveillance cameras don’t want to solve certain crimes, or prosecute certain criminals.”

Oh, come on. Next thing you know you’ll be telling me someone could “commit suicide” in a federal prison without being recorded.


51 posted on 10/04/2023 1:25:34 PM PDT by suthener
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To: ansel12

Don’t make personal attacks.


52 posted on 10/04/2023 1:55:20 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: mikelets456

You’re being tracked no matter what you do…that how Google makes $$$$!!
I’m sure Apple does it as well….even when your phone is turned off it is still searchable

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Yet another reason I don’t own a cell phone!


53 posted on 10/04/2023 7:10:32 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (There are only two sexes but there are 57 different types of queers.)
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