Police ask Google for location data to narrow suspect lists

Police in North Carolina have hit on a simple if potentially controversial way to firm up suspect lists – use location data from Google to work out which devices were being used near the scene of crimes. According to WRAL, police in Raleigh used warrants in at least four recent investigations to make the search giant reveal the IDs of every device within certain map locations.

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