Security News > 2020 > January > Google Receives Geofence Warrants
2020-01-28 12:53
Google reportedly has a database called Sensorvault in which it stores location data for millions of devices going back almost a decade.
The article is about geofence warrants, where the police go to companies like Google and ask for information about every device in a particular geographic area at a particular time.
In 2013, we learned from Edward Snowden that the NSA does this worldwide.
Its program is called CO-TRAVELLER. The NSA claims it stopped doing that in 2014 - probably just stopped doing it in the US - but why should it bother when the government can just get the data from Google.
Both the New York Times and EFF have written about Sensorvault.
News URL
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/01/google_receives.html