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

**tn1911** · 03-07-20, 19:48

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

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...e-him-n1151761

**BoringGuy45** · 03-07-20, 19:54

But only the guilty need fear, right?

**Honu** · 03-07-20, 20:02

Well first problem using a android phone that allows this !

Hate on Apple but this would not have happened

Yeah going to happen more and more

**ABNAK** · 03-07-20, 21:08

Originally Posted by tn1911

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

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...e-him-n1151761

If I was on a jury and knew evidence had been accrued by such methods I'd vote "Not Guilty". I do not care what he was accused of. This has to stop.

Remember when the Feds swore up and down that information gleaned from NSA "snooping" would never be allowed? Then of course the term "parallel construction" emerged. How convenient.

The 4th Amendment has been largely neutered to a degree. We need to set it back to what it was supposed to be. Sure, technology advances, but a line must be drawn somewhere, and now is as good a time as any. You buy a phone and the expectation is that others can easily access it with a warrant simply because you owned the device and/or service? Nah, not thinking most would agree with that, whether a criminal or not. It's apparently the fine print that allows them to do this, correct?

**26 Inf** · 03-07-20, 21:09

I saw in the story that his family had hired an attorney, perhaps too soon, but, who knows.

My belief is that if you are rounded up in a geofence warrant and incur expenses proving your innocence, you need to be reimbursed for those expenses.

Or, we need to extend the expectation of privacy into our personal data where ever it is located.

**ABNAK** · 03-07-20, 21:15

Originally Posted by 26 Inf

I saw in the story that his family had hired an attorney, perhaps too soon, but, who knows.

My belief is that if you are rounded up in a geofence warrant and incur expenses proving your innocence, you need to be reimbursed for those expenses.

Or, we need to extend the expectation of privacy into our personal data where ever it is located.

Agreed on both points.

**Arik** · 03-08-20, 11:08

Originally Posted by ABNAK

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Nah, not thinking most would agree with that, whether a criminal or not.

Are you kidding? Vast majority wouldn't care...... don't care..... so long as they have a shiny flashy thingy. Especially millennials and whatever the group is called after them. Where I rent my office in there's another company as well. I'm the oldest guy in the building and I'm 40. They all think I'm nuts for never having FB, for turning off all the allowable tracking features...etc ...etc... And quite a few have their whole house connected to Google. Alexa, thermostat, baby monitors, lights, tv, door, cameras and so on. One guy even bases the quality of a car on how much features it has, not anything mechanical. My car is literally a p.o.s because it doesn't have a touch screen and a push button start! If anything, privacy intrusion is going to get worse