CHARLOTTE — Investigators have sought assistance from Google to obtain warrants that request the company to identify phones in specific areas during criminal activities. WATCH: Thieves use U-Haul to ...

Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News, focusing on Google and Yahoo. He previously worked for PandoDaily and Fortune Magazine, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, on ...

Law enforcement shouldn't be the only outside group peering inside Google. A coalition of 59 civil rights, labor, and civil society organizations sent an open letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai ...

I wrote last week about an oral argument in the Fourth Circuit involving geofence warrants. Geofence warrants are warrants to obtain the location data that Google users let Google collect if they opt ...

While Google releases biannual reports of government requests it receives, the company hasn't shared how many of them are dragnet queries. Alfred Ng Senior Reporter / CNET News Alfred Ng was a senior ...

For the first time, Google has published the number of geofence warrants it’s historically received from U.S. authorities, providing a rare glimpse into how frequently these controversial warrants are ...

Digital privacy rights defenders contend that geofencing warrants grab data on everyone near a crime, without cause. Newly released data by Google sheds light on a controversial practice called ...

Surveillance cameras captured the loud thump of bicyclist Pamela Morehouse being hit from behind on a Sunday evening bike ride in Crescent City, California, three miles from the Pacific Ocean near the ...

As per a news story by The Sun, the FBI or the Federal Bureau of Investigation served the search engine tech giant, Google, which owns and operates the biggest smartphone operating system, Android, a ...

Federal courts in Chicago have now rejected ‘geofence’ searches to Google on three occasions. As reported by Arstechnia this means law enforcement agencies now cannot simply ask Google for this ...

You can find nearly anything on Google, and Lawrence police are using the tech giant’s data to track and identify crime suspects. One such suspect is on trial this week in Douglas County District ...

Google keeps historical locations of users, and police are taking advantage to find all kinds of criminals. Two dead dogs and more than $50,000 in damaged property were just some of the casualties of ...