Jorge Molina in Goodyear, Ariz. Detectives arrested him last year in a murder investigation after requesting Google location data. Often, Google employees said, the company responds to a single warrant with location information on dozens or hundreds of devices. The new technique, he said, “seems like a fishing expedition.”Gary Ernsdorff, a Washington State prosecutor, has worked on several cases involving Google location data. Warrants reviewed by The Times frequently established probable cause by explaining that most Americans owned cellphones and that Google held location data on many of these phones. Mr. Litwak said his investigation found that Mr. Molina had sometimes signed in to other people’s phones to check his Google account.

Source: New York Times April 13, 2019 14:37 UTC