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You can get dragged into a police investigation by proximity alone — for now

TechnologyApril 28, 20261 min readAttributed summary
You can get dragged into a police investigation by proximity alone — for now
A years-old bank heist may soon have major privacy implications for every American who owns a cellphone. On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Chatrie v. United States, a case involving poli
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A years-old bank heist may soon have major privacy implications for every American who owns a cellphone. On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Chatrie v. United States, a case involving police's use of controversial "geofence warrants" to find and arrest Okello Chatrie, the suspect of a 2019 bank robbery outside Richmond, Virginia. At stake is how private your location data - and any other information you store with a large tech company - actually is.

Chatrie was tracked down via the Location History feature on Google Maps, which can identify a person's location within three meters and refreshes every two minutes. Police served G …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Source: The Verge

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