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 ...

After a man was shot dead outside a bank in Paramount in 2019, Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives turned to Google for help identifying suspects. Through a search warrant, detectives directed the ...

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 ...

New Delhi: Google has moved to end a long-running surveillance practice called "geofence warrants", a practice that allowed law enforcement agencies to use Google's location data to identify potential ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...