How police use reverse search warrants to extract your location from Google

Updated:6 years, 7 months ago

New Delhi, Mar 11 (ANI): In a traditional crime scenario, the police use a search warrant against a suspect to gain evidence. However, in the new age of technology, the police are increasingly using what is called as a ‘reverse search warrant’ with the help of Google’s location database to identify the suspect. As explained by Cheddar, the police consider the reverse search warrant method useful in cases such as robbery. It has been used quite frequently used by the police in the US. While this method is legal and considered useful especially in robbery cases, the amount of data Google is asked by the police is far more than needed. There are a number of innocent people whose data crawls up the public database.

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