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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday March 29 2020, @08:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the data-doesn't-lie dept.

About a year ago, Zachary McCoy took a bike ride around his neighborhood in Gainesville, Florida. It may have been forgettable to him, but not to history. Because McCoy used an app to track his mileage, the route was forever etched in the Google-verse and attached to his name.

On the day of this ill-fated bike ride, McCoy passed a certain neighbor's house three times. While this normally wouldn't raise alarm, the neighbor happened to be the victim of a burglary that day, and had thousands of dollars worth of jewelry stolen. The Gainesville police had zero leads after a four-day investigation, so they went to the county to get a geofence warrant. Thanks to all the location data McCoy had willingly generated, he became the prime suspect.

From hackaday:
https://hackaday.com/2020/03/25/geofence-warrant-sends-mans-privacy-over-the-handlebars/

Oblig. xkcd.


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