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Google data puts innocent man at the scene of a crime

The man became a suspect because location data from his Android phone was swept up in a surveillance dragnet called a geofence warrant.

Investigators are using geofence warrants to get anybody and everybody who’s near a crime at a given time.

Law enforcement officials in the US have been routinely mining Google’s location history data for criminal investigations.