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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/
(Score: 5, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Sunday March 29 2020, @09:11AM (8 children)
Bookmark this story, so that you have it handy the next time someone claims: “If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide.”
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @09:28AM (7 children)
You would only bookmark this if you have something to hide.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @09:33AM (6 children)
I'll have nothing to hide, after I've hidden your body! But, I'll leave the phone home while I'm doing that.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday March 29 2020, @11:15AM (5 children)
http://archive.is/9uZqf [archive.is]
https://info.security.kastle.com/resources/articles/burglary-home-security-statistics [kastle.com]
Millions of Americans have some kind of front door camera. There are plenty of dashcams too, and automated license plate readers. Better get your murder sprees done soon because millennials are embracing surveillance technologies.
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(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Sunday March 29 2020, @01:07PM
Nah, just get smarter about it. Surveillance tech is so easily hacked. Get extra points for framing an enemy or three for your crime spree.
During his bike ride, Mr. McCoy should've been towing a red wagon with 99 cell phones.
(Score: 2) by Barenflimski on Sunday March 29 2020, @05:48PM (3 children)
Story:
Two neighborhoods. Split by a 2 land country road. One built in the last 5 years, the other built 40 years ago. New neighborhood is about 33% more expensive for the same sized homes with no lawn. In the old neighborhood we have a wide range of folks from from 20's - 90's. New neighborhood is 30's - 50's.
In the new neighborhood, 3/4 houses have RING doorbells. In the old neighborhood 1/10 do.
There is no point in this story. It's just a story.
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Sunday March 29 2020, @05:53PM
Nothing matters anymore™.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday March 29 2020, @07:16PM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Monday March 30 2020, @03:00AM
At least it wasn't a long shaggy dog.
"It is easier to fool someone than it is to convince them that they have been fooled" Mark Twain
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Sunday March 29 2020, @09:21AM (4 children)
Useful idiots can be convinced to track themselves, so that when I commit a crime, someone else gets blamed. I love it. Maybe I will make a career change, and take up crime as a way of life!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Sunday March 29 2020, @10:22AM (2 children)
Don't worry, you are already guilty of at least something. No need to opt for a career change, you are already criminal.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Sunday March 29 2020, @10:47AM (1 child)
The difference is, once you decide to be a real criminal, you can take satisfaction in a job well done! ;^)
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Sunday March 29 2020, @12:38PM
Well said!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @02:16PM
Attention Citizen:
YoU WoUlDn'T ThINk oF CoMmiTtiNg A tHOuGHt CriMe.
Thoughts are murder. Stop thinking and save lives today!
Thank you for your cooperation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @06:07PM
n/t
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday March 29 2020, @09:02PM
I went out to get food, due to the anti covid measures we have to self-declare our destination. To make things possibly easier I decided to record a gpx trace (open format of your location in time) of my travel, so if I were stopped I could exactly tell the cops where I had been going so far. No stopping, got back home, put down the phone, put food in refrigerator and stuff.
After 3 hours or so, I picked up the phone, still recording as I didn't turn it off. The gpx trace was weird. It contained my earlier travel, but when I took it home the gps signal must have reduced considerably, so it showed some imperfection on the arrival point and a COMPLETELY MADE UP circuit, with speed and all, that would have me flying over the neighbourhood for some 100 meters and then returned more or less following the streets. A pity that my neighborhood comprises an ex army barrack which is now home for immigrants and the red cross. Given that there are theoretical ways to penetrate the place (no more barbed wire) if it had happened something I might have had some explaining to do.
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