Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police (Published 2019)
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April 13, 201912 min read2494 words
Published: April 13, 2019  |  12 min read2494 words
Alex Welsh for The New York TimesWhen 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...
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While Google is most definitely used by the police forces across the world to pry on people's lives "in their own interest", as most governments argue over and over, claiming that Google is a dragnet for police is only partially true. But that doesn't make it less alarming.
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