I don't think this is true -- can you explain it? At least for those on US soil, since SCOTUS ruled on Carpenter v. United States, I believe you would need a warrant.
They can already do this via the cellular phone networks, which need your location to provide the service. Yes, they could discard that data once it was no longer needed, but that is subject to subpoena and preservation orders, so it's not that far to a location history DB anyways.
Mobile network location history is a lot more coarse than what Google can provide. Things like interference and reflections limit the precision most cellular networks can provide even when actively probing for a phone's location. With mmWave things are a lot more precise, but reflection can happen even in mmWave configurations.
I don't think Googs knows what free is. They have replaced that word with "ad supported". If TLAs want access to that data, they can just pay for it like everyone else. Gives a whole new meaning to "targeted" ads
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Consider for a moment that the FBI and CIA can access and search all of the location histories for everyone in one central location without a warrant.
Perhaps Google recognizes what an existential threat to a free society that is.
That is scary. However, being able to see my own data is more important to me in this case.
I don't think this is true -- can you explain it? At least for those on US soil, since SCOTUS ruled on Carpenter v. United States, I believe you would need a warrant.
They can already do this via the cellular phone networks, which need your location to provide the service. Yes, they could discard that data once it was no longer needed, but that is subject to subpoena and preservation orders, so it's not that far to a location history DB anyways.
Mobile network location history is a lot more coarse than what Google can provide. Things like interference and reflections limit the precision most cellular networks can provide even when actively probing for a phone's location. With mmWave things are a lot more precise, but reflection can happen even in mmWave configurations.
I don't think Googs knows what free is. They have replaced that word with "ad supported". If TLAs want access to that data, they can just pay for it like everyone else. Gives a whole new meaning to "targeted" ads
At least CIA can do this already via cell tower logs.