The man became a suspect because location data from his Android phone was swept up in a surveillance dragnet called a geofence warrant.
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Police get “unprecedented” data haul from Google with geofence warrants
Investigators are using geofence warrants to get anybody and everybody who’s near a crime at a given time.
DEA sued over “suspicionless” mass surveillance of Americans’ phone records
Human Rights Watch and EFF are suiing the drug agency, along with the FBI, DOJ and the USA itself, to make sure they torch the bulk surveillance program and purge its mountain of records.