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Cybersecurity Privacy

‘Keyword Warrants’ Pose Privacy Threat

The practice of seeking a "keyword warrant" is a technique of dragnet policing. A keyword warrant requires the production of all IP addresses for anyone who inputs a particular word or phrase into an internet search engine. The search results are then used to identify a device user.

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On Dec. 12, 2023, Google announced it would no longer centrally store users’ location history data. Location information will now only be saved temporarily on users’ devices, where the data can be erased. This significant policy change may effectively end the practice of seeking “geofence warrants,” a mechanism used by law enforcement to identify criminal suspects through searches of Google’s database for devices present at a crime scene. Without Google’s reservoir of location data, a geofence warrant is futile.

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