Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect

The lawyer, Caleb Kenyon, dug around and learned that the notice had been prompted by a “geofence warrant,” a police surveillance tool that casts a virtual dragnet over crime scenes, sweeping up Google location data drawn from users’ GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and cellular connections from everyone nearby.

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Awesome example. We should start collecting these examples to fight the argument of

“Oh. I’m doing nothing wrong, so It’s ok for google to spy one me.”

Another example:

This is very much kafkaesque!