Google shares data for the first time on geofence warrants received from US authorities: 8.3K in 2019, 11K in 2020; federal law enforcement made up 4% of total
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch : Tweets: @goyal_abhei and @zackwhittaker Tweets: Abhishek Goyal / @goyal_abhei : Geofence warrants in US help to identify people of interest who were in the near vicinity of a scene of crime. Via court order, Police ask Google to turn over details of who was in a area, at a certain point in time, to identify suspects. - TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/... Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker : New: For the first time, Google has published the number of geofence warrants it's received from U.S. authorities. Google got 20,932 demands in 3 years, at times that's about one-quarter of all U.S. demands. https://techcrunch.com/...