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Brickbat: Dragnet

Charles Oliver | 3.30.2018 4:00 AM


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In at least four cases, Raleigh, North Carolina, police have obtained warrants demanding Google turn over account identifiers of every single cellphone around a crime scene around the time a crime happened. In two cases, they asked for every phone in a 17-acre area around the crime scene.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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