Google's GPS data led a man being a criminal because he cycled nearby a crime scene

(nbcnews.com/news/us-news/google-tracked-his-bike-ride-past-burglarized-home-made-him-n1151761)

>Google’s legal team wrote to Zachary McCoy letting him know that local police had demanded information related to his Google account. The company said it would release the data unless he went to court and tried to block it. He had just seven days.

>“I was hit with a really deep fear,” McCoy, 30, recalled, even though he couldn’t think of anything he’d done wrong. He had an Android phone, which was linked to his Google account, and, like millions of other Americans, he used an assortment of Google products, including Gmail and YouTube. Now police seemingly wanted access to all of it.

In the notice from Google was a case number. McCoy searched for it on the Gainesville Police Department’s website, and found a one-page investigation report on the burglary of an elderly woman’s home 10 months earlier. The crime had occurred less than a mile from the home that McCoy.

Now McCoy was even more panicked and confused. He knew he had nothing to do with the break-in ─ he’d never even been to the victim’s house ─ and didn’t know anyone who might have. And he didn’t have much time to prove it.

McCoy worried that going straight to police would lead to his arrest. So he went to his parents’ home in St. Augustine, where, over dinner, he told them what was happening. They agreed to dip into their savings to pay for a lawyer.

The lawyer, Caleb Kenyon, dug around and learned that the notice had been prompted by a “geofence warrant,” a police surveillance tool that casts a virtual dragnet over crime scenes, sweeping up Google location data — drawn from users’ GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and cellular connections — from everyone nearby.

>“It was a nightmare scenario,” McCoy recalled. “I was using an app to see how many miles I rode my bike and now it was putting me at the scene of the crime. And I was the lead suspect.”

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>The victim was a 97-year-old woman who told police she was missing several pieces of jewelry, including an engagement ring, worth more than $2,000. Four days after she reported the crime, Gainesville police, looking for leads, went to an Alachua County judge with the warrant for Google.

>In it, they demanded records of all devices using Google services that had been near the woman’s home when the burglary was thought to have taken place. The first batch of data would not include any identifying information. Police would sift through it for devices that seemed suspicious and ask Google for the names of their users.

>Kenyon said police told him that they became particularly interested in McCoy’s device after reviewing the first batch of anonymized data. They didn’t know the identity of the device’s owner, so they returned to Google to ask for more information.

>That request triggered the Jan. 14 notice the technology giant sent to McCoy, part of its general policy on notifying users about government requests for their information. The notice was McCoy’s only indication that police wanted his data.

>Gainesville police declined to comment.

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ALL cyclist are criminals.

Oh yeah they’re Watching

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If his story is true the GPS data will show that he just passed near the house without stopping for a second.

Also, the police may just want to question him as a potential witness.

Reminder to call all jews Metzitzah B'peh. It drives them insane and can never be banned for hate speech. Also if normies look it up they will see it's when rabbis suck baby dicks.

Or he actually was the criminal

Guy shouldn't have to be questioned at all. This is fucked up.

Fucking Google and police are Gains goblins.

Why you get rid of every device that has google on it. FUCK JEWGLE. Those fuckers sent the glowies to me a year ago over a comment on youtube in regards to criminal beaners. FUCK GOOGLE, FUCK YOUTUBE. FUCK KIKES AND LASTLY, FUCK NIGGERS.

Fuck da Police

Sir, we have come to your home to inform you that it appears you have turned off location history in your google profile. Turn it back on, or you will go to jail!

The police should do their fucking job and stop being lazy fucks during investigation. What kind of fucking retard cop would just immidiately make the assumption that "OH this phone went by this house! This man is suspect! AND He is tracking his progress on Strava!"

Fucking retard pea-brained detective work. Police are fucking garbage.

The fact that he wasn't hiding his location should have been a dead giveaway that he was innocent. Cops are literal retards.

4D chess being played by getting interviewed and playing innocent.

ok boomer

>t. salty nigger that doesn't understand the world around him
good luck in the future mutt

I delete all Google aps.

the androids i have owned in the US wouldn't let me delete google apps for some reason so i switched to an iphone

i just leave my phone at home most of the time if im popping out for shopping or whatever.

b-based and dare I say... redpilled

The non conviction record the police generate is even more annoying. When you do a background check you think they are looking for stuff like convictions, warrants, court orders. But they can also include information the police gathered on any investigation.
Park your car next to a suspected drug dealers car that was under surveillance? You now show up as being investigated for drug trafficking because they ran your plates.
Report a case of domestic abuse to the police when your neighbors are fighting at 2AM? Now you're part of a domestic violence investigation.

In short never talk to the police, never given them your name, never call the police.

>b-but if you're not a criminal you have nothing to worry about
bootlickers btfo

kek

Riiiiiight - how many times have innocent people been arrested, jailed, cost money on lawyers etc for shit they had nothing to do with? Ive been arrested for a felony over a guy who just simply didnt like me lying to cops. No altercation with the guy at all. Cost me thousands just to get the case dropped. The cops will and do arrest anyone over nothing and the burden of proof of innocence is on you

This is fucking demented

It was God's way of punishing you for a previous crime you committed and went unpunished.

Ted Kaczynski was right about this shit.

>> lets arrest people over superstition

You belong in the ground

Bootlickers go out of their way to buy cops donuts and coffee. It's pointless providing them any sort of information like this. They simply disregard it.

The source of this evil is not electronics. Its jews

cyclists are fags
day of the bumper when?

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We all need to stop using Google products.

>“I was hit with a really deep fear,” McGoy, 30, recalled, even though he couldn’t think of anything he’d done wrong

fuckin normie

>part of its general policy on notifying users about government requests for their information
Yes I truly believe this.

Yep, this shit is getting out of control.

>try to drop weight
>get arrested
AMERICA

Can you operate a phone without Android?

>a police surveillance tool that casts a virtual dragnet over crime scenes, sweeping up Google location data — drawn from users’ GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and cellular connections — from everyone nearby.

Wait, hold the fuck up. Wasn't this specifically illegal for US police?

IOS
Some linux maybe

they arrested him because he is a grown man riding a bicycle

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That's a rough 30.

So can he sue google for millions of dollarinos for spionage?

This. Police have become a group of lazy union protected government niggers. It's tempting to commit crimes knowing that there's not a cop within 500 miles with the IQ and motivation to actually catch anything above a ghetto nigger, and even they get away with half their shit.

Right, and after a quick scan of his GPS, emails, browser history, bank accounts, purchase history, etc I'm sure they'll find no evidence that he burgled some old bat's jewelry, but will find evidence of a dozen obscure civil violations that he can be ticketed for or damaging or personal information the cops can sell off or blackmail him with.

The future's so dark we're gonna need torches.

he was the look out!

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Someone should make a phone with a non Android Linux OS. It would sell well. I know you can get GSM operating on Raspberry Pi, so it's doable.

Hope he do time and become a bottom bitch. Those retards are the ones who keep saying "I don't have anything to hide, it's ok to use google".

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Doesn't seems like he bike a lot...

Plot twist, he actually was the burglar

Plot twist: he didn't burgle anyone's home but has been trafficking in child pornography. The story about a small jewel robbery is a pretense for the police to search his shit. You think police care about some retarded old boomer's jewels? Everyone knows Tyrone took those shits. They don't care. Look at his face. He's not scared over being suspected of a petty crime. He's scared he's going to prison for life over child porn.

You don't trust the government? Sounds like something a nazi would say.

The end of a machine gun could light up a room on full auto couldn't it?

That is as long as we don't need to download an app, create an account and log in, enable GPS have a verification code sent to our mobile number, upload ID and take an up to date picture to complete verification.

I feel like the article was written to inception this idea into normie minds

Unless it's the Israeli government of course.

you'd be amazed at how dumb niggers and criminals are. How many of then actually commit crimes while having their phone with them.

Lol check out this Nazi bootlicker.

Please submit your asshole to daddy government, they would never do wrong, but also they have Mexican babies in literal concentration camps on the border. No one ever needs a gun just call the police. Cops are all evil racists who shoot blacks for fun and the Trump admin are literal Nazis worse than Hitler.

We need open borders because people need freedom and no one is illegal. This guy called someone a fag send him to jail for 5 years and ruin his career.

Vote Bernie Sanders

/r/woosh

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>geofence
Cool. They already got us in cages
-sent from my android phone.

Good job keeping track of everyone google.

Google Pixel 3 user here posting on Chrome.

How fucked am I?

Ask me anything.

You can bike every day for miles and still be fat if you eat a lot. My uncle does both.

This is a great strategy if he is guilty

>using gps in 2020
deserved the hassle, your phone isn't your friend

I'm buggered

Same.
>Heyyyy! Share the road, peoples!
>Stop sign? No thanks!

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what if criminals don’t carry phones while committing crimes

Use LinageOS or Replicant.

I don't see the problem. He chose out of his own volition to wear his dog collar. He can just make a new account and let the cops have his old one. If he's innocent he shouldn't have nothing to worry about.
>but muh privacy
You've relinquished everything associated to it by browsing the internet, even more so by using a smartphone, aka dog collar. Your fucking choice, nigger.

I'm sorry you still have a 3g connection.

Eric schmidt, at the time the CEO of Google famously said, "if you have something you don't want anybody to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it on the first place".
In that case, let me in your house, unless you have something to hide.
Or why do you need the 4th amendment unless you have something to hide?
These are the globalists that are ruining our world and destroying our families.
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Good doggy. Sit. Now shake. Shake, or no treat for you!

they won't stop until he's bankrupt and in the gulag

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t.third world poorfag

do you really think they'd allow that evidence into play? they're going to ruin this kid