Apr 27, 2026
Everything you do online is available to the police with a single warrant. All your emails, search engine queries, social media activity, and sensor data collected by Alexa and Ring and new-model cars - all of it is exposed with a warrant. Andrew Guthrie Ferguson discusses his book "Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance."
Millions of Americans use a Google service known as “location history,” which gathers data roughly every two minutes about where its users travel and when. Unlike traditional warrants, which target an identified suspect based on probable cause that they have committed a crime, geofence warrants operate in reverse. Law enforcement draws a virtual “fence” or boundary around a geographic area where a crime has been committed and asks Google for data on every user whose device happened to be in the area during a particular time.• Don't Talk to the Police (March 20, 2012): “Regent Law Professor James Duane gives viewers startling reasons why they should always exercise their 5th Amendment rights when questioned by government officials.”