{"id":1757910,"date":"2022-12-01T08:35:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T13:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757910"},"modified":"2022-12-01T08:48:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T13:48:11","slug":"google-provided-fbi-location-data-from-over-5000-devices-for-jan-6-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-provided-fbi-location-data-from-over-5000-devices-for-jan-6-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Provided FBI Location Data from Over 5,000 Devices for Jan. 6 Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgoogle-provided-fbi-location-data-from-over-5000-devices-for-jan-6-investigation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757910&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2021-07\/Capitol%20fence%20GettyImages-1327324530-2.jpg?h=199d8c1f&#038;itok=H65sKBFW\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The FBI\u2019s investigation into the Jan. 6 riot reportedly is the biggest in agency history and its biggest for accessing cell phone data through so-called geofence warrants.<\/p>\n<p>A filing in the case of Jan. 6 defendant David Rhine shows that Google initially identified 5,723 cellular devices as being in or near the Capitol, in Washington, D.C., during the riot, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/fbi-google-geofence-warrant-january-6\/\">according to Wired.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, just 900 people have so far been charged with offenses in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 riot.<\/p>\n<p>The warrants are issued by a court to allow law enforcement to search a database to find active mobile devices within a particular area.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Tech firm is served about 10,000 geofence warrants in the U.S. each year, Wired also reports.<\/p>\n<p>The geofence warrants served on Google shortly after the riot remained sealed.\u00a0However, Rhine&#8217;s lawyers recently filed a motion to suppress the geofence evidence, as first reported by journalist Marcy Wheeler on her blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emptywheel.net\/2022\/10\/18\/1500-investigative-subjects-a-competent-google-geofence-motion-to-suppress-for-january-6\/\">Emptywheel<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Google is defending its handling of geofence warrants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a rigorous process \u2026. that is designed to protect the privacy of our users while supporting the important work of law enforcement,&#8221; the company told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/fbi-google-geofence-warrant-january-6\/\">Wired.<\/a> &#8220;When Google receives legal demands, we examine them closely for legal validity and constitutional concerns, including over-breadth, consistent with developing case law.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If a request asks for too much information, we work to narrow it. We routinely push back on over-broad demands, including over-broad geofence demands, and in some cases, we object to producing any information at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI\u2019s investigation into the Jan. 6 riot reportedly is the biggest in agency history and its biggest for accessing cell phone data through so-called geofence warrants.A filing in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1757913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1757913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}