These controversial warrants require Google to scour the search history of its 2 billion monthly users to find responsive ...

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 ...

Alfred Ng was a senior reporter for CNET News. He was raised in Brooklyn and previously worked on the New York Daily News's social media and breaking news teams. Geofence warrants are facing legal ...

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 ...

Law enforcement shouldn't be the only outside group peering inside Google. A coalition of 59 civil rights, labor, and civil society organizations sent an open letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A detective investigating an armed bank robbery in Midlothian turned to Google when other leads in the case didn’t work out, obtaining a search warrant for the location history ...

Digital privacy rights defenders contend that geofencing warrants grab data on everyone near a crime, without cause. Newly released data by Google sheds light on a controversial practice called ...

Surveillance cameras captured the loud thump of bicyclist Pamela Morehouse being hit from behind on a Sunday evening bike ride in Crescent City, California, three miles from the Pacific Ocean near the ...

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 ...

Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News, focusing on Google and Yahoo. He previously worked for PandoDaily and Fortune Magazine, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, on ...

Federal courts in Chicago have now rejected ‘geofence’ searches to Google on three occasions. As reported by Arstechnia this means law enforcement agencies now cannot simply ask Google for this ...

You can find nearly anything on Google, and Lawrence police are using the tech giant’s data to track and identify crime suspects. One such suspect is on trial this week in Douglas County District ...