Google knows what you did last summer.
The cops have been sending subpoenas to Google for records of where Android users have been, according to a detailed report yesterday on The Verge. With Google’s help, police corroborated suspicions of serial bank and retail store robbers after establishing a suspect. The police asked for all the tech giant’s information about where certain Android went on the days in question. And Google had to turn it over, because it knows.
The government has an easy time getting any data people share with third parties, a point a federal court in Virginia just reaffirmed.
Google Maps, it turns out, is really, really keeping an eye on its users. It takes advantage of GPS, cell tower and wi-fi location data to truly pinpoint where users go... READ MORE on Observer.com