Google will soon allow users to store their location data on their devices rather than on Google's servers, effectively ending a long-running surveillance practice that allowed police and law ...

UKRAINE - 2023/02/21: In this photo illustration, the Google Maps logo is seen on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Location data has ...

After a man was shot dead outside a bank in Paramount in 2019, Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives turned to Google for help identifying suspects. Through a search warrant, detectives directed the ...

Civil liberties groups are scrambling to hold the line in a world where smartphones create a constant record of most people's ...

CHARLOTTE — Investigators have sought assistance from Google to obtain warrants that request the company to identify phones in specific areas during criminal activities. WATCH: Thieves use U-Haul to ...

Google announced changes to the way it harvests your location data this week that will finally put a stop to its compliance with geofence warrants, a police surveillance technique that many say ...

I wrote last week about an oral argument in the Fourth Circuit involving geofence warrants. Geofence warrants are warrants to obtain the location data that Google users let Google collect if they opt ...

New privacy enhancements introduced for Google Maps this week are reportedly designed to end geofence warrants from law enforcement agencies, according to a new report. Google announced the ...

For the first time, Google has published the number of geofence warrants it's historically received from U.S. authorities, providing a rare glimpse into how frequently these controversial warrants are ...

Senior writer at Forbes covering cybercrime, privacy and surveillance. It also landed a month after Google had announced updates that would make geofence orders technically impossible by adding layers ...