Your
phone records AND remembers. Perhaps we should write a more
comprehensive App: “Witness in Your Pocket!”
Tracking
Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police
When
detectives in a Phoenix suburb arrested a warehouse worker in a
murder investigation last December, they credited a new technique
with breaking open the case after other leads went cold.
The
police told the suspect, Jorge Molina, they
had data tracking his phone to the site where a man was shot nine
months earlier. They had made the discovery after
obtaining a search warrant that required Google to provide
information on all devices it recorded near the killing, potentially
capturing the whereabouts of anyone in the area.
Investigators
also had other circumstantial evidence, including security video of
someone firing a gun from a white Honda Civic, the same model that
Mr. Molina owned, though they could not see the license plate or
attacker.
But
after he spent nearly a week in jail, the case against Mr. Molina
fell apart as investigators learned new information and released him.
Last month, the police arrested another man: his mother’s
ex-boyfriend, who had sometimes used Mr. Molina’s car.
… Technology
companies have for years responded to court orders for specific
users’ information. The new warrants go further, suggesting
possible suspects and witnesses in the absence of other clues.
Often, Google employees said, the company responds to a single
warrant with location information on dozens or hundreds of devices.
… The
technique illustrates a phenomenon privacy advocates have long
referred to as the “if
you build it, they will come” principle — anytime a
technology company creates a system that could be used in
surveillance, law enforcement inevitably comes knocking. [“We
can, therefore we must!” Bob] Sensorvault, according
to Google employees, includes detailed location records involving at
least hundreds of millions of devices worldwide and dating back
nearly a decade.
I
expect Dilbert will eventually weigh in.
Cartoon:
The CCPA, a Federal Comprehensive Privacy Law, and Preemption
Perspective.
My students apparently don’t know that “resistance is futile.”
Inside
SoftBank's push to rule the road
SoftBank
Group Corp leader Masayoshi Son has much bigger ambitions for
transportation than simply seeing his investment in Uber Technologies
Inc turn into more than $13 billion when the company goes public next
month.
The
Japanese entrepreneur is placing a $60 billion bet in more than 40
companies in a bid to steer the $3 trillion global automotive
industry now dominated by vehicles people own and drive to a
spectrum of transportation services available at the touch of a
smartphone app. Those services range from ride hailing
and car sharing to delivery robots and self-driving vehicles.
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