Geofence warrant

A geofence warrant or a reverse location warrant is a search warrant issued by a court to allow law enforcement to search a database to find all active mobile devices within a particular geo-fence area. Courts have granted law enforcement geo-fence warrants to obtain information from databases such as Google's Sensorvault, which collects users' historical geolocation data.[1][2] Geo-fence warrants are a part of a category of warrants known as reverse search warrants.[3]

  1. ^ Valentino-DeVries, Jennifer (April 13, 2019). "Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 17, 2021.
  2. ^ Brewster, Thomas (December 11, 2019). "Google Hands Feds 1,500 Phone Locations In Unprecedented 'Geofence' Search". Forbes. Retrieved October 17, 2021.
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